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Pope.L
Mal Content, 1992
Pope.L created this "painting" by covering a newspaper image of a young Malcolm X with peanut butter. He has used this "brown goo," as he calls it -- and, elsewhere, its symbolic opposite, mayonnaise ("white goo") -- to transform the experience of growing up poor and black into works of searing critique and dark humor. "Mayonnaise and peanut butter, those ‘cheap' foods we ate as kids. . . . Once used, they don't stay in their original form: they change, they oxidize. . . . Which leads to an interesting query: What is brownness as opposed to whiteness?" |