Angela Davis #2

This is an original artwork, please don’t touch.

On the side of this room, there is a balcony with tactile drawings of several artworks in this room. This artwork by Iris Kensmil can also be experienced as a tactile drawing. Go to the balcony, take the drawing from the wall and place it on the lectern in order to feel it clearly.

Information on the artwork

Iris Kensmil portrays important figures from the Black emancipation movement. 'I consciously use a European way of painting light. It gives a certain presence to the people I portray, with which I wish to respectfully emphasize their importance.' Presented here is Angela Davis, activist, politician, academic, and author, for whom the US prison system has been a key point of protest. Since her first actions and her imprisonment in the 1970s, she remains an extremely relevant activist.

[exhibition text 2017]

Credit: met steun van / with support of Mondriaan Fonds