The black figure has always been a subject of entertainment in popular culture, as well as an image to sell things. In some ways, that’s how people relate to us—because they’ve seen us on television.
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Derrick Adams
Antifascist Medicine Machine by Elektra KB
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First Proof
Antifascist Medicine Machine, 2019, vending machine, acrylic, beads, nuts, and bolts, 20 x 10 inches.
Elektra KB is a Colombian artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her work is included in Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall at the Brooklyn Museum (2019).
Originally published in
BOMB 148,
Summer 2019
Featuring interviews with Mary Weatherford, Nanfu Wang, Lee Quiñones, Venkatachalam Saravanan, Tyshawn Sorey, Ben Whishaw, Édouard Louis, Geovani Martins, Prageeta Sharma, and James Thomas Stevens.
