Danielle Dean “Focus”
The Studio Museum in Harlem
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In 2003, Nike released a sneaker called “True Red,” which was marketed as the vampire sneaker. By turning True Red into the protagonist of an animation, Dean explores the capacity for objects to seemingly acquire a life of their own. The sneaker morphs into various forms – a bat, a castle, an oozing red substance—over the course of approximately three minutes. The medium of animation was first popularized in the early twentieth century and was adopted by both avant-garde artists seeking progressive social change, and by private companies seeking to better market their products and grant inanimate commodities “life.”
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from November 12, 2015 to March 06, 2016