"To Deceive the Eye"
Microscope is very pleased to present “To Deceive the Eye,” the second solo exhibition at the gallery of works by artist Ina Archer.
For “To Deceive the Eye” — the English translation of the French term “trompe-l’oeil” — Archer draws attention to the representation of African Americans and “the other” in cinema, the media, and the wider culture, from the mid-1800s until present day, highlighting the ways in which visual advancements have often been used to perpetuate stereotypes and racist tropes.
In her new multi-channel video installation, 16mm film, watercolors and other works on view, Archer employs, re-makes and re-edits original, found, and archival materials to re-contextualize images of blackness as a way to address, with sharp wit, themes of race and race relations including the legacy of minstrelsy, cultural appropriation, and erasure. Frequent visual deceptions are at play in the works such as those created by technological advancements in film and media as well as other trickeries employed by Archer.
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