Exhibition Opening Reception: "Demystifying Blackness"

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The artist, Marton Robinson questions stereotype assertions and constructions of Blackness while also alluding to the complexities of Black identity across geographies. His art dismantles and challenges preconceived identifications by adopting a geopolitical, economic, and socially informed narrative that resists Black erasure.

Using political satire to ridicule the colonial and racist portrayal of Blackness, Robinson offers nuanced behind the diasporic subject while building new transformative ways of existence within a neoliberal colonial state that profits on the exploitation of subjects. His decolonial perspective, as a Black Costa Rican artist based in Canada, embraces a visual interpretation of dissent. He encodes messages that defy and question structures of power in North America by disrupting narratives of Blackness. This process of disentangling harmful stereotypes and racist dogmas, becomes relevant at a moment in history when white supremacy and fascism are on the rise.

The artworks on display not only reference racist ideologies and their intentions to punish, control, and classify Black bodies but most importantly, to create awareness during critical times when erasure, whitewashing, and the uprising of an oligarchy perpetuate racial and ethnic classifications that need challenging more than ever.