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born 1954 United States
Fred Wilson (born 1954) is an American artist of African-American and Caribbean heritage. He received a BFA from Purchase College, State University of New York.
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I felt we were always on display. But the irony for me was that as much as we were on display, we were invisible.
Everything seemed to have a certain authority,a certain power associated with wealth.
Museums change history to make it palatable for the public.
The labor of one enabled the wealth of the other to exist.
I believe they say a lot about one another.
I wanted people to understand that perhaps the body is just stuck in Venice, but his brain, his mind, his future was going somewhere—or was already elsewhere.
If you have a collection of note, (with African pieces) that are about 100 years old, these things were not taken out through commerce but as spoils of war.
And museums are loathe to return them” to their rightful owners. Some were given labels far more honest than any museum would ever sanction, such as, “Stolen from Zaire tribe, 1899.
Just by doing a little,could do a lot.
I want people to see these works as I see them and I try to, without hitting people over the head, allow them to think … and either make sense of it or not.
The works lost their individuality. The artists lost their humanity. Even I, who knew all the artists, was feeling some of these things after I installed the pieces.
At this point I had sort of shifted it because it was really about that time and that the art world was only the United States and Europe, and all these other places were just not there.
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