Moran Fiontán

This Tate Photography book spotlights the work of New York-based artist Lyle Ashton Harris.

Ce livre de Tate Photography met en lumière le travail de l’artiste new-yorkais Lyle Ashton Harris.

Lyle Ashton Harris a passé son adolescence à vivre entre New York et Dar es Salaam, en Tanzanie. Cette période formatrice est à la base de sa vaste pratique artistique en photographie, collage, installation et performance – commentant les constructions sociales du genre, du désir et de la race; les complexités de l’expérience africaine et afro-américaine; et sa propre identité en tant que queer, homme noir.

Lyle Ashton Harris spent his adolescence living between New York City and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This formative period informs his wide-ranging artistic practice in photography, collage, installation and performance — making a commentary on the societal constructs of gender, desire, and race; the complexities of African and African American experience; and his own identity as a queer, Black man.

‘I think it’s important to talk about the triumph of laying claim to an experience and rechannelling its energy into creative expression that will go back out into the culture where an intergenerational transmission can take place.’