Bayete Ross Smith: The PASSING Series - Identity Challenges of the 21st Century
Michele Elizabeth Lee || [ CURATORIAL STATEMENT ] use compass to view walls
Curatorial statement
Bayete's work poses questions of freedom and equity in an ever-increasing global society where mass movement is controlled and perceptions about the "other" and even "ourselves" is shaped by the media, policy, class and technology.
Passing. def. Charading as a privilege to escape racial, gender, religious, cultural, ethnic, political, or economic persecution anywhere.
Passing. def. Obtaining documents, by any means necessary to migrate to a country made wealthy by controlling the natural resources of another.
Passing. "It made me think how documents relate to class and how there's this hierarchy of class depending on what type of documents or papers you have. [This] determines how much freedom [you have] to access our global society."
Passing. [Conversely] "Is it easy to steal someone's identity because of how easily you can access information, or is it easy because our system has become so simplistic and relies so much on computers, as if computers don't make errors?"
Has your identity ever been in question?
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Bayete's work poses questions of freedom and equity in an ever-increasing global society where mass movement is controlled and perceptions about the "other" and even "ourselves" is shaped by the media, policy, class and technology.
Passing. def. Charading as a privilege to escape racial, gender, religious, cultural, ethnic, political, or economic persecution anywhere.
Passing. def. Obtaining documents, by any means necessary to migrate to a country made wealthy by controlling the natural resources of another.
Passing. "It made me think how documents relate to class and how there's this hierarchy of class depending on what type of documents or papers you have. [This] determines how much freedom [you have] to access our global society."
Passing. [Conversely] "Is it easy to steal someone's identity because of how easily you can access information, or is it easy because our system has become so simplistic and relies so much on computers, as if computers don't make errors?"
Has your identity ever been in question?
[ HIDE ]