Video, HD (color and sound) 35 min 59 s.

Edition of 5 +1 AP



In 2016, Lili Reynaud Dewar went to Memphis, where Martin Luther King was assassinated in the 1968 sanitation strike led by African- American workers, to make the video Teeth, Gums, Machine, Future, Society. The resulting installation hinges on two references: the Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway, where the cyborg is an expression of the intersection between class, race, and gender, and its current manifestation which is a person who wears a grill, a dental prothesis made of precious metal popular in hip-hop culture. In this work, made in collaboration with four artists from stand-up, noise music and contemporary art, Lili Reynaud Dewar takes as a point of departure her white European identity: she reveals the process of cultural appropriation, the construction of African- American empowerment, and the vulnerability of the body and its representation in public spaces.

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