Ayana V. Jackson
Mary Fields: One of the Freest Souls ever to draw a breath or a thirty-eight, 2023
Archival pigment print on German etching paper
47 1/4 x 59 in
120 x 150 cm
120 x 150 cm
Edition of 8 plus 3 artist's proofs
Series: You forgot to see me coming
An interpretation of the real-life trailblazer, this portrait merges myth with truth. Jackson confronts the archive’s erasure of Black women’s autonomy by restaging it herself. Here, photography becomes resistance: not...
An interpretation of the real-life trailblazer, this portrait merges myth with truth. Jackson confronts the archive’s erasure of Black women’s autonomy by restaging it herself. Here, photography becomes resistance: not to record the past, but to rescript what we were never allowed to see. Shown in Gallery Two: Colonialism And The Forgetting Of Afro Heritage at PhotoEspana in Nosce Te Ipsum: Membrum Fantasma.