Afrofuturism

Afrofuturism – Style of art that reimagines the past, present, and future of Africans and African Americans through various lenses including science fiction and futuristic fantasy.

• Renee Cox, (1958-) artist-photographer – Uses her body in her work. Started as a fashion photographer. Aware of the scarcity of black bodies in the fashion industry, began to create works that consider black female beauty and sexuality. https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/feminist_art_base/renee-cox

• Taxi, the Raje series, 1998, photograph  – cibachrome – Shows herself as the Afrofuturist superhero Raje. Costume is in the colors of the Jamaican/black nationalist flags. superhero Raje stops a taxicab criticizing NYC cab drivers that pass black passengers.  Subverts stereotypes, rights injustices, and rewrites history. 

https://www.artnet.com/auctions/artists/ren%C3%A9e-cox/taxi-from-the-raje-series-4