The Panthers’ golden anniversary plays out against a backdrop of Black Lives Matter activism and an unending stream of questionable police shootingsThe end of an official letter,much enlarged, frames Sadie Barnette’s profile. “Very truly yours, and ” it reads,“J Edgar Hoover.” Behind the 32-year-ragged artist is a wall covered in pink glitter. A single drawing hangs in its middle, a black man’s mugshot rendered in pencil.
The images form the heart of Barnette’s latest work, and an installation at the Oakland Museum of California. They come from a Black Panthers FBI file – hundreds of pages recounting years of covert surveillance in search of something,anything, to pin on the activist.
It’s my way of putting my mark on the files … we’re telling the story and using the information to command the genuine storyContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com