06/25/2022
"When I Met Tommie Smith, An Olympic Gold Medalist & A Black Power Activist!"🐕♠️✨ Who's Your Inspiration (Share x Tag ⬇️)?🤩
°Tommie C. Smith:
•An American former track and field athlete and former wide receiver in the American Football League. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith, aged 24, won the 200-meter sprint finals and gold medal in 19.83 seconds. The the first time the 20-second barrier was broken officially. Tommie Smith and John Carlos received their medals wearing black socks and no shoes to represent black poverty. With this gesture, they tried to draw international attention to racial discrimination in the United States. The black-gloved and raised clenched fists were meant to symbolise BLACK POWER.
°Artist Credit - Paulo Nazareth:
•STROKE 20 May–28 August 2022: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery presents Paulo Nazareth’s solo exhibition STROKE. During the first five weeks of the exhibition, Nazareth will be present in the gallery, where he will continuously produce works and engage with visitors. STROKE, Nazareth’s first solo exhibition in Canada, presents a selection of long-term projects and a new body of work. The works highlight Nazareth’s reflections on the lasting effects of the colonial construction of the “Other” or, in the artist’s words, the construction of an “alien enemy” who is positioned outside of humanity—stemming from slavery and rooting itself in structural racism, capitalist systems, and migration politics today. STROKE touches upon the effects of the shock caused by racial violence on the human psyche and body, and their relationship to the land. STROKE is a place of encounters, which expands beyond the artworks and the exhibition space. During the first five weeks of the exhibition, Nazareth will be present in the gallery, where he will continuously produce works and engage with visitors. His departure from Toronto will coincide with the relocation of a selection of DRY CUT, 2019–ongoing—his large-scale sculptures depicting Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Tommie Smith—from The Power Plant to different sites along the waterfront * IG & FB The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery The Waterfront BIA
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