T-shirts
I’m interested in the way that popular language reflects the values of contemporary communities of color. Deconstructing, analyzing and re-thinking slogans as a reflection of a community, of youth, of society. I’m also interested in the impact of language, how that language is transformed or amplified when made into a wearable object.
From Rania Stephan: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011) @ MoMA PS1
Rania Stephan (Lebanese, b. 1960) has been working with film for the last two decades. Stephan’s body of work may at first appear perplexingly heterogeneous—ranging from video art to raw documentary—yet its underlying coherence stems from her country of origin, Lebanon, which stands at a crossroads of cultures and influences, East and West, and remains a place of both exile and return. Stephan focuses on what she calls “the archaeology of images, identity, and memory.”
