EXHIBITION

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Brussels, 04/14/2016 - 05/22/2016

Rue de la Régence 17 1000 Brussels

ABOUT

Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery is proud to present a comprehensive selection of APT artist Hank Willis Thomas's body of work for the first time in Belgium.

Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist living and working in New York City. His work focuses on themes related to perspective identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. He often incorporates recognizable icons into his work, many from well-known advertising and branding campaigns.

The exhibition will be tackling the same problems we are facing in Europe today with the immigration crisis and integration into our society.

Thomas, whose work addresses the construction and use of race in America, also resists this categorization. “I could be a black artist, but I’m also many other things. All of us inhabit multiple identities at once,” says Thomas. “The craziest thing about blackness is that black people didn’t create it. Europeans with a commercial interest in dehumanizing us created it. Five hundred years ago in Africa there weren’t black people. There were just people."

“Part of advertising’s success is based on its ability to reinforce generalizations developed around race, gender and ethnicity which are generally false, but [these generalizations] can sometimes be entertaining, sometimes true, and sometimes horrifying.”*

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Hank Willis Thomas

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