This week, MoAD Docents discuss Who Among Us...The Art of Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle

As a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary visual artist, writer and performer, Hinkle presents her work as a tool to undo the imaginings placed onto the colonized body and its movements throughout space and time. Hinkle’s work remixes and re-imagines these perceptions and seeks to invent new possibilities of engaging visually with the black female body respectively.

Concerned with the ‘historical present,’ Hinkle’s research based practice is a collision of mediums. The exhibition features works from three projects that Hinkle has been working on concurrently for the past 6 years. In this virtual tour we will revisit works on paper from The Uninvited Series, The Tituba Series, and artifacts from The Kentifrica Project.

Hinkle’s work with West African colonial era photography, the story of Tituba the Black Witch of Salem and her interest in a contested geography named Kentifrica creates a dynamic push and pull between the past, present and future in which she oscillates between the real and the imagined, collapsing the two into an elusive space of time and being.

Image credit: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, The Sower, 2015; India ink, acrylic paint, and polyfilm on wood panel, 11 x 14 inches.Generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges and the Westridge Foundation