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The 2022 Berlin Family Lectures with Poet Claudia Rankine
"Meanwhile"
Lecture two: "Meanwhile in the Work of Artist and Filmmaker Titus Kaphar"
April 13, 2022
Artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar’s depiction of mothers with their children transports Harvard scholar Homi K. Bhabha’s rift on the “risk to life” into the body to the viewer. Kaphar’s paintings stop time—resting on a single moment—while simultaneously harnessing a past and future present. This presentation will consider the ways in which the “risk to living” becomes the living. Rankine will consider how Kaphar ultimately does away with Meanwhile as he visually collapses all time into a continuous present.
The 2022 Berlin Family Lectures with Poet Claudia Rankine
"Meanwhile"
Lecture two: "Meanwhile in the Work of Artist and Filmmaker Titus Kaphar"
April 13, 2022
Artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar’s depiction of mothers with their children transports Harvard scholar Homi K. Bhabha’s rift on the “risk to life” into the body to the viewer. Kaphar’s paintings stop time—resting on a single moment—while simultaneously harnessing a past and future present. This presentation will consider the ways in which the “risk to living” becomes the living. Rankine will consider how Kaphar ultimately does away with Meanwhile as he visually collapses all time into a continuous present.
