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① Artwork:
Faggots Shoot Back
This monochromatic graphite composition was born from a series that explores the creation of 'Ailantha,' a free Black nation conceptualized by the artist. In the drawing, two figures shoot at targets surrounded by dense vegetation. It speaks to queerness and fighting against an oppressive heteronormative system, but it also references returning the land to its indigenous people in its lush and primal form.
Utē Petit explores Black-Indigenous, land-based traditions through Ailanthaland, a free Black nation of heavenly beings, realized in charcoal and graphite drawings, quilts, installations, farming, and cooking. She specializes in textile practices and incorporates woven, quilted, and hand-printed fabrics into her art. Deeply informed by her ancestry as a quilter, educator, and farmer, Petit attempts to design a nation divested from white-imposed societal constructs and committed to the self-determination of all beings.
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③ Artist:
Utē Petit explores Black-Indigenous, land-based traditions through Ailanthaland, a free Black nation of heavenly beings, realized in charcoal and graphite drawings, quilts, installations, farming, and cooking. She specializes in textile practices and incorporates woven, quilted, and hand-printed fabrics into her art. As part of her process, Petit stewards the lots of her great-grandmother and her three neighbors in New Orleans to repatriate family land stolen by the state of Louisiana. Deeply informed by her ancestry as a quilter, educator, and farmer, Petit attempts to design a nation divested from white-imposed societal constructs and committed to the self-determination of all beings.
Utē Petit was born in 1995 in Southfield, MI, and lives in New Orleans, LA. She earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI (2018).
Petit has shown her work at the New Orleans African American Museum in New Orleans, LA; the Oakland Avenue Urban Farm in Detroit, MI; the Library Street Collective in Detroit, MI; Loyal Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden; and Swivel Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
She won the third annual Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists (2022) and the Marsha P. Johnson Starlight Fellowship (2023).
This monochromatic graphite composition was born from a series that explores the creation of 'Ailantha,' a free Black nation conceptualized by the artist. In the drawing, two figures shoot at targets surrounded by dense vegetation. It speaks to queerness and fighting against an oppressive heteronormative system, but it also references returning the land to its indigenous people in its lush and primal form.More
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