Скачать или смотреть Faheem Majeed, Freedom’s Stand

Faheem Majeed is an artist, educator, curator, and community facilitator. In 2016, Majeed founded the Floating Museum, an art collective that creates new models for exploring relationships between art, community, architecture, and public institutions. He has also been the Executive Director and Curator for the South Side Community Art Center, the oldest African American art center in the US. Majeed blends his experience as an artist, non-profit administrator, and curator to create artworks focused on institutional critique; his exhibitions leverage collaboration to promote meaningful dialogue among his immediate community, as well as a broader one. In his sculptural practice, Majeed often makes portraits of specific places: through rubbings of walls, floors, or even farm fields. In some cases he recreates the cultural spaces where he works as an administrator. He stages events, performances, and conversations within his installations, balancing between creating art objects and platforms for new cultural experiences.

For the High Line, Majeed presents Freedom’s Stand, an homage to the role of Black newspapers in the US. The work draws inspiration from a range of influential, community-driven work, including Chicago’s Wall of Respect and the Community Mural Movement, and emphasizes the importance of community-generated news and self-representation. Freedom’s Stand is named after Freedom’s Journal, the first Black-owned-and-operated newspaper in New York City, founded in 1827, which offered a counter-narrative to newspapers that attacked African Americans and encouraged slavery. The sculpture is modeled on the Dogon granaries of West Mali. The walls of the sculpture showcase headlines, articles, photographs, and advertisements from historical and contemporary Black newspapers, such as the ongoing South Shore Current in Chicago; these selections rotate monthly.

Organized by Melanie Kress, Curator of High Line Art.