ART/SOUND INSTALLATION created by Veruska Bellistri (Rome,Italy) Stephanie Muller (Munich,Germany), Christine Kewitz (Berlin,Germany)
Black little girls rarely see their identities validates, recognized or rapresented anywhere but at the mirror.
Probably to have black dolls would help them to grow up self-confident and aware of self-worth.
The purpose of this art installation is to reflect upon this under-represented subject and to encourage women from forced migration & slavery to stop hiding own herstory, beauty and blackness. It's an invite to decolonize our mind & soul and to be always vigilant at any attempt at black women's devaluation. All dolls are named after characters from African American novels who describes what it means to grow up as a black girl in a western country.
Poems, songs and selected passages from Toni Morrison "The Bluest Eyes" bell hooks" Bone Black: Memoirs of a Girlhood" are presented by the dolls as well as their personal stories.
This installation has been exhibited at: Ladyfest Nurnberg (2005), Torino Pride (2006), Ladyfest Frankfurt (2006), SomArts SF (2006), Black History Month, NJ (2007), Black History Month, Paris (2007), Sick Marilyn, Rome (2007), Intermundia, Rome (2007), Ladyfest Torino (2007)
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