Tina Campt in conversation with Owen Martin
26 Apr, 13:00 — 14:00
Senior Curator Owen Martin in conversation with Tina Campt, Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, on the occasion of Frida Orupabos exhibition On Lies, Secrets and Silence
Dr. Tina Campt and Owen Martin will discuss Campt’s latest book A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See (2021), in which she develops a framework for engaging with contemporary Black artists—shifting from ‘looking at’ to ‘looking with, through, and alongside.’ Applying this lens, they will examine Frida Orupabo’s exhibition and practice, considering what is at stake in her work.
On Lies, Secrets and Silence is part of a new body of work by Orupabo centered on the home and childhood. Frida uses images associated with the home to unearth the complexities within domestic spaces, such as in the video installation House Party, and the sculptures Jumpy Fits and Facial Ticks and Trauma Catches Up, among others. Notions of childhood and play are cut through with racial, gender and class hierarchies and violence, and Frida dissembles these images and objects, offering proposals for their deconstruction.
The conversation is included in the entry fee to the exhibition. Free for members.
Tina M. Campt is Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art and Archeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and lead convener of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project, as well as a founding scholar of Black European Studies. Campt has published five books including A Black Gaze (MIT Press, 2021); Listening to Images (Duke University Press, 2017); Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (Duke University Press, 2012); and Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (University of Michigan Press, 2004). She received the 2020 Photography Catalogue of the Year Award from Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation for her co-edited collection, Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (with Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg and Brian Wallis, Steidl, 2020) and the 2024 Photographic Studies Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute for distinguished contributions to the study of anthropology and photography.
