Ayana V. Jackson
Ayana V. Jackson

Award-winning photographer and activist Ayana V. Jackson explores how Western historical archives have shaped ideas about non-Europeans in a free, public exhibit March 16-April 1 in the CUB gallery and in the Jo Hockenhull Distinguished Lecture at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in the CUB auditorium.

The exhibit, “Archival Impulse,” is drawn from art historian Hal Foster’s idea that new systems of knowledge can be created by confronting the archive. Jackson examines photographs taken during the colonial expansion into Africa and the Americas and how such photos shaped ideas about non-European bodies. With the archival photographs as reference images, Jackson restages – and in the process reappropriates – the images, using herself as the only model.

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