Forgive Me For My Scenes

Kevin Diallo, 2019

Kevin Diallo, 2019


KEVIN DIALLO

During the year 2018-2019 Kevin Diallo worked as a model with the aim to better understand the way Blackness as an entity independently of black people is cultivated for the production of capital in common channels of distribution. During his time modelling, Kevin Diallo observed, as an insider the way Blackness is constructed, understood, circulated and experienced in popular media and advertising. Forgive Me For My Scenes refers to the artist Me Aculpa in being complicit to the exploitation of debatable clichés and stereotypes of black people.

Kevin Diallo is a Sydney based artist originally from the Ivory-Coast whose practice suggests Blackness relationship to the future. Rooted in post-colonial discourse and race politics, Diallo’s work investigates how institutionalised ideas of Black and African authenticity can be deconstructed and challenged by mean of juxtaposition through a variety of mediums, more particularly with alternative photographic processes, installations, sculptures and new media.

26th February - 15 March, 2020

 
 
 

Tributary Projects is supported by Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centres.

Tributary Projects acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and waters in which we operate, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, as well as the Ngarigu people and others who traded on, traveled through, and connected with this country, and continue to do so. We pay our respects to their Ancestors and Elders and acknowledge that sovereignty of these lands was never ceded.