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Why are we ignoring the Black woman in the painting? A woman barley identified in the placard below. A woman so often used as a prop. A thing to be forgotten. When I was in art school, black muses were never discussed. They had no history worth remembering, no story worth telling. Today, we see them on museum walls and galleries - their faces famous yet invisible. With each portrait I have created an account for these women. Finally giving them a voice.
Country: United States of America (USA)
T-Port Partner: Festival Formula
Webpage: https://www.dianachire.com/
Diana Chire is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. Born in Djibouti, raised in London, Diana works in a variety of traditional and non- traditional media (performance, photo-text collage, video installation, sculpture among them). Her work has been featured in galleries from New York to Berlin and profiled in “W”, “I-D”, “Dazed and Confused”. Her own publication, “She-Zine” features cutting-edge contributions from leading female artists. Her award-winning short film, “A Living Sculpture” was shot in London and is currently making rounds on the festival circuit. Diana’s work dissects female sexuality and racial identity in a raw and unflinching way that refuses to apologize for its existence. She seeks to expand the ideas around what the Black female diaspora can contain.
Merging the historical paintings of the past, with the whisperings of exclusion of what could...
