Good Times: Friday
In Good Times, multi-disciplinary artist Chris Friday continues her exploration of the depiction of Black bodies and their presence/absence in contemporary space. Sourcing personal narratives, expressions of popular culture, and communal ritual, Friday utilizes drawing, video, illustration, sound, and ceramic sculpture to create installations that prompt the viewer to consider more expansive notions of blackness and where communities – known and unknown – are given a space to dialogue, reflect, and celebrate. Friday’s subjects – family, friends, colleagues – and the settings in which they exist, become mechanisms to unsettle traditional hierarchies and arrangements of power. In particular, she presents large-scale drawings of figures in acts of leisure – playing, dancing, resting – that refuse full exposure in a slight but noticeable turning away from the viewer. By placing them in the public realm (i.e. the gallery space), but limiting access to their interiority, Friday’s works inhabit a liminal space that is at once visible and hidden, silent and defiant.
In Good Times, multi-disciplinary artist Chris Friday continues her exploration of the depiction of Black bodies and their presence/absence in contemporary space. Sourcing personal narratives, expressions of popular culture, and communal ritual, Friday utilizes drawing, video, illustration, sound, and ceramic sculpture to create installations that prompt the viewer to consider more expansive notions of blackness and where communities – known and unknown – are given a space to dialogue, reflect, and celebrate.
Friday’s subjects – family, friends, colleagues – and the settings in which they exist, become mechanisms to unsettle traditional hierarchies and arrangements of power. In particular, she presents large-scale drawings of figures in acts of leisure – playing, dancing, resting – that refuse full exposure in a slight but noticeable turning away from the viewer. By placing them in the public realm (i.e. the gallery space), but limiting access to their interiority, Friday’s works inhabit a liminal space that is at once visible and hidden, silent and defiant.
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III<br />
The pressure’s taking over me, it’s beginning to loom<br />
Better if I spare your feelings and tell you the truth<br />
Lately, I redirected my point of view<br />
You won’t grow waitin’ on me . . .<br />
[Chorus]<br />
I choose me, I’m sorry . . .<br />
Do yourself a favor and get a mirror that mirror grievance<br />
Then point it at me so the reflection can mirror freedom3<br />
REST AS REPARATIONS SERIES<br />
UNTITLED, AALIJAH<br />
2022<br />
3. “Mirror,” track 18 on Kendrick Lamar, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,<br />
PGLang, Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment, and<br />
4 Interscope Records, 2022.<br />
Chalk on black archival paper<br />
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