Steffani Jemison
Similitude, 2019
HD video
TRT 35:42
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
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'Similitude' explores modernist mime, postcolonial mimicry, gesture and abstraction in relation to American and European mid-20th century modernist mime. Featuring a black American actor trained in physical theater, Similitude considers...
'Similitude' explores modernist mime, postcolonial mimicry, gesture and abstraction in relation to American and European mid-20th century modernist mime. Featuring a black American actor trained in physical theater, Similitude considers spiritual dimensions of the discipline, including questions of masking and opacity, self-sufficiency and self-similarity, and the structural device of the parable or similitude.