Oasa DuVerney "“The MYLFworks Revenge”
Momenta Art
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In her new four-channel video, the artist plays a fictional character, the MYLF: a domestic caretaker with hints of both mother and sex worker. By combining these roles, DuVerney addresses social inequalities within contemporary labor conditions as issues of race, gender and class intersect.
The MYLF wears fishnet stockings and an old T-shirt. Her make-up is on, but her hair is still in rollers. She performs a variety of domestic chores in conditions that lack acknowledgement, respect or gratitude on the part of the recipients in her care. The MYLF is not happy to be here but she grudgingly performs, exhausted and resentful.
The work is accompanied by the hardcore song Apocalypse Now by the Cromags.
A divided nation in these times of hate. So much racial tension say it's not
too late. Can the human race exist as one? Or the fire of disaster be the final
doom.(1)
(1) Cromags, Apocalypse Now, 1991
*MYLF derived from (slang) Mother/Mom I'd Like to Fuck: A (putative) mother or woman of childbearing age found to be sexually attractive
Oasa DuVerney is a Brooklyn-based artist born in New York. Selected exhibitions include Through A Glass Darkly, Postmasters Gallery, NYC (2012); Superheroes and Antiheroes, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY (2012); Crown Heights Gold, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2011); Paperwork, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, NYC (2011); and Planet of Slums, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ (2010). DuVerney was awarded the LMCC Workspace program residency (2012-2013), the Tony Smith Award by Hunter College (2011), a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council (2011), a grant award from the Citizens Committee For New York City (2010), and the Aljra Emerge Fellowship by the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art (2007). Publications include The New York Times (2012, 2011), and the New York Daily News (2010). She received her B.F.A. from the Fashion Institute of Technology and her M.F.A. from Hunter College.
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Schedule
from February 22, 2013 to March 31, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-02-22 from 18:00 to 21:00