Mystic parallax / Awol Erizku ; foreword by Ishmael Reed ; essays by Ashey James and Doreen St. Felix ; conversations with Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent ; editor: Michael Famighetti.
Foreword / Ishmael Reed -- Awol Erizku: mystic parallax / Ashley James -- Awol Erizku's Afro-Esotericism / Doreen St. Felix -- Cosmic affinity / conversation with Urs Fischer -- When the smoke clears / conservation with Antwaun Sargent.
Summary:
Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku. Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans Erizku's career, blending his studio practice with his work as an in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New Yorker, New York magazine, Time, and GQ, among others, and features his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons, such as Solange, Amanda Gorman, and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the New York Times, 'It's important for me to create confident, powerful, downright regal images of Black people'. Featuring essays by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed, curator Ashley James, and writer Doreen St. Felix, and interviews with the artist by Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and arresting testament to the artist's tremendous power and originality. Copublished by Aperture and The Momentary.
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