How closely should David Hammons’s and Keltie Ferris’s prints be compared? While the technique is the same, and only a few other body print artists come to mind; there are evident, visual differences in the prints. What are the politics...
moreHow closely should David Hammons’s and Keltie Ferris’s prints be compared? While the technique is the same, and only a few other body print artists come to mind; there are evident, visual differences in the prints. What are the politics of the intertextual link between Ferris’s and Hammons’s prints? How did Ferris apprehend the political context in her viewing of “Injustice Case” and how does power shape Ferris’s relationship to Hammons’s print? In what way are Ferris’s body prints gendered or queered? Based on apriori tropes, Ferris becomes legible as soft butch in these prints, and multiple interviewers ask Ferris gendered questions about the image’s relationships Warhol’s “Elvis” prints, for example. How is Ferris performing queerness, and how does this gender performance relate to the muscularity of the Black radical politics of the 1970s?
