Pretend #6
Primary
Adrian Piper
(New York, New York, 1948–)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1990
MediumEnlarged photographs with screenprinted text
DimensionsOverall: 30 x 58 9/16 in. (76.2 x 148.8 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Jeanne and Michael Klein, 2007.1.a-c
Rights Statement
Collection AreaModern and Contemporary Art
Object number2007.1.a-c
On View
Not on viewHere Piper recontextualizes three photographs culled from the mass media, each one crystallizing an important element in the debate about race in the United States. Through words and images, Piper asks viewers to “Pretend not to know what you know”—that is, to study with fresh eyes those images that alternately reproduce or contradict stereotypes and to abandon those preconceptions about racial identity that we accept as given and natural.
Adrian van der Cabel
1652
Object number: 2002.2459
Adrian van der Cabel
1652
Object number: 2002.2460
