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je t’aime
je t’aime features Thomas in bed with her partner, Racquel Chevremont, switching between the two filming each other in intimate scenes staring at one another. Thomas says that “There’s a lot going on but there’s a lot you don’t see. You don’t always need to see something to know the love between two people. You can use other modes of construct to exemplify those feelings. It’s beyond physicality — it’s a deeper love that is oftentimes ignored.”
Mickalene Thomas (lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) makes paintings, collages, photography, video, and installations that draw on art history and popular culture to create a contemporary vision of female sexuality, beauty, and power. Blurring the distinction between object and subject, concrete and abstract, real and imaginary, Thomas constructs complex portraits, landscapes, and interiors in order to examine how identity, gender, and sense-of-self are informed by the ways women (and “feminine” spaces) are represented in art and popular culture.
Visit her website here.