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Martine Syms
b. 1988 — Los Angeles, California, USA
Notable Works:
The African Desperate (2022)
Incense Sweaters & Ice (2017)
Laughing Gas (2016)
Notes on Gesture (2015)
Lessons I-CLXXX (2014-2018)





Video:
Martine Syms on her conceptual project She Mad
Moviegoing Memories | In conversation with Martine Syms
Martine Syms | HOW TO SEE Projects 106 with Martine Syms
Publications:
“The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto”
Further Reading:
The New York Times | The Many Lives of Martine Syms
Artnet | ‘There’s This Illusion That It’s an Equalizer’: Artist Martine Syms on How Her New Film Explodes the Myth of the MFA Education
Interview Magazine | Martine Syms and Precious Okoyomon Need Space to Breathe
See Also:
Afrofuturism
Golden Age
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Tree Drawings, Tim Knowles
A closer look at British artist Tim Knowles’ series of drawings produced using drawing tools attached to the tips of tree branches; the wind’s effects on the tree, recorded on paper. Like signatures each drawing reveals the different qualities and characteristics of each tree.
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