My Bodies

Closely cropped white men populate the video work My Bodies Their faces slide like a corporate PowerPoint over grainy noisy textures as a host of black womenJennifer Hudson Beyoncé Aaliyah and Ciara among otherssing variations on my body They are tightly sampled as if to arrive at some kind of median One clip that zooms into the pores of a sweaty pink forehead recalls a robotic texttovoice line from another work And my skin shines with white peoples problems Unlike the white men culled from a Google image search for CEOs blackness is only ever heard and never seen The artist explains If you came back would you choose to have the same body or not Would you have the body of a woman again Or a woman of color