“What these artists offer in this moment is nourishment of spirit and soul, and a reminder to celebrate our own power and our own strength. We need that strength in order to keep fighting,” says Tariq Dixon
We lay in a bed of queen anne’s lace and I offer you twenty tons of honeysuckle clover, 2013. Photo: Naima Green Lately, we’ve been drowning in upsetting images of police violence. If you’re looking for a moment of respite, a new photography show called Mien is uplifting individual queer black and brown voices to highlight the joy and beauty in those identities.
Curated by Tariq Dixon, the co-founder of home-furnishings studio Trnk, the show benefits the Ali Forney Center to combat LGBTQ+ youth homelessness in New York City. And it’s personal, exploring intersecting identities as both a queer person and a BIPOC. “We’re being inundated through the news and through media with depictions of our bodies and spirits and lives just constantly under siege and attack — things that we’re aware of as queer people and as people of color,” says Dixon.
The exhibition gives queer people of color an amplified voice, but it refuses to treat them as one homogenous LGBTQ+ block or participate in the exotification of black and brown bodies. Instead, the artists take ownership of their stories, speaking on their lived experiences as individuals and as members of a wider community. The exhibition features nine photos from seven queer artists of color, including Naima Green, Nelson Morales, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
Among the artists, Naima Green has photographed over a hundred people for “Jewels From the Hinterland,” a project that reimagines black artists and artists of the diaspora in urban centers where the privileged landscape is lush and growing. “These photographs create an alternative present by reclaiming urban green spaces as places of tenderness, beauty, and play for people of the African diaspora,” Green told the Cut.
You can purchase the limited-edition, 20-inch-by-30-inch images at $75 for an unframed print and $250 for a framed one. One hundred percent of the proceeds donated to the Ali Forney Center helps to provide meals at its 24-hour drop-in center, medical and mental-health services at its on-site clinic, and housing through its scattered-site program. Breath tucks in and weighs the eyes closed. Beyond that callused layer lies a circular gradient of white, into yellow, into burnt orange and red.
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