Rewriting History with Fabiola Jean-Louis
Schedule
Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Getty Center | Pacific Palasaides, CA
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Fabiola Jean-Louis’s photographic series Rewriting History places Black women into a surreal historical imaginary, sculpting the trappings of European nobility and colonialism onto Black femme bodies. Using paper as a symbol of freedom, she intricately crafts papier mâché period gowns for her subjects, inverting the historical depiction of women of color as disenfranchised, enslaved and unadorned into empowered and elegant portraits. She will be joined in conversation by Professor Tiffany Barber to discuss traditions of portraiture and Black aesthetics, historic revisionism and Afrofuturism, in a dialogue about the reparative work of artists and curators alike.Learn more | https://www.getty.edu/calendar/rewriting-history-with-fabiola-jean-louis/
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Where is it happening?
Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, Pacific Palasaides, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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