{"id":8122,"title":"Wake","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2003-01-01","material":"20 plexiglas portrait medallions - 2 black light photographs","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, and Koplin Del Rio, CA","cached_tag_list":"photography","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"wake","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/019/003/large/BALLET_3.jpg?1380448125","poster_credits":"(c)image: Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, and Koplin Del Rio, CA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"*Wake* (2003) consists of a cluster of images that deals with the transportation and transformation of Africans as a consequence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Two *Black Light* photographs present two cargo vessels that took slaves from Africa to America. 20 round photographs pay homage to the first 20 Africans who came to be sold in the slave auctions at the Jamestown Settlement in 1619. One of them, a self-portrait of Marshall in his youth, is also included as a symbolic marker of the first African-American. \r\n\r\nThe work includes portraits of three black ballerinas. Ballet was long seen as not \"fitting\" for people of an African-American background. Indeed, it used to be commonly taken that the Black body was not suited for this dance form. Even today, a black presence in leading national ballet companies remains rather paltry. This said, ballet has indeed made inroads within the black community. As well as being the name for the religious commemorative ceremony for someone that has died, the title *Wake* also refers to this social transformation.\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"*Wake* (2003) bestaat uit een cluster van beelden met als onderwerp de transportatie en de transformatie van zwarte mensen als gevolg van de trans-Atlantische slavenhandel. De black light-foto’s tonen twee schepen die slaven transporteerden van Afrika naar Amerika. Ronde foto’s brengen hulde aan de twintig eerst Afrikanen die als slaven verkocht werden in James Town-kolonie in 1619. Eén van hen toont een zelfportret van Marshall uit zijn jeugd, bijgevoegd als een symbolische ‘marker’ voor de eerste Afro-Amerikaan. \r\n\r\nDe reeks bevat ook portretten van drie zwarte ballerina’s. Het is een ongerijmd beeld, omdat dit niet meteen een dans is die past bij de Afrikaanse cultuur, maar een kunstvorm die later wel werd overgenomen in de Afro-Amerikaanse cultuur. In eerste instantie echter werd “het zwarte lichaam niet geschikt geacht voor deze dansvorm”. In de gerenommeerde nationale balletgezelschappen komen zelfs nu nog niet veel zwarte ballerina’s voor. Toch vond ook ballet zijn intrede in de zwarte gemeenschap. De titel *Wake* verwijst enerzijds naar een religieuze herdenkingsplechtigheid voor iemand die gestorven is, en anderzijds naar deze sociale transformatie. \r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1222,"name":"Kerry James Marshall","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}