Sunday, May 3, 2020

“Beyond the Black Atlantic” at Kunstverein Hannover (Sandra Mujinga)


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The design that inflects a character. Supposedly people booed the first big screen presence of Darth Vader, his mere appearance made his operatic badness understood. The clown is scary because his costume signals that he isn't structured, social codes are not his, the clown is above law. The cues that speak to the inhuman.