Fabiola Jean-Louis, Kendrick Lamar: The Reclamation of Blackness

Jean-Louis Uses oppressive and racist laws written throughout america's history to construct a colonial paper dress. Using the past documents used to oppress black people and turning it into a tool to construct and reclaim the brutality of slavery to black colonials 

Lamar's Grammy performance was a look at the use of the american prison system being used to replace slavery in the modern times. Confronting and being unapologetic in its representation of african american oppression.

Both of these artist have contextualised the brutal history of black oppression as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and created brutally unapologetic piece of work looking to reclaim the voices of those treated unjustly as a result of the colour of their skin.

The concept of the work I create being contextual is very important to me. As I realise that my work needs to be a reclamation of the information I have gathered. The art I produce must be my retelling of these facts, uncensored in anyway. To create authentic work that mimic the way I have tried to challenge british slavery in my dissertation has now become crucial to the further development of my work.