BEBASHI, HIV and AIDS on the table. by sonia e barrett

Bebashi 1

sonia e barrett

BEBASHI, HIV and AIDS on the table., 2011

88 x 58 cm

I started my inquiry in to the home across the African diaspora with the oil wax tablecloth. Ever ready, hardworking and pristine the oil wax tablecloth was there to present any number of meals for any number of visitors. Hospitality and the importance of welcoming other people into your home well were values I saw across the diaspora. I started collecting the tablecloths that accompanied that and worked with BEBASHI to sketch members of the black community that were not at the table because of their sexuality, their infection, and their meds which needed to be kept refrigerated. A house was not a home for many black people who were HIV positive or had AIDS and I painted images of these individuals and the HIV virus into the table cloths that covered the tables they were absented from. This was as a way of bringing them back, and putting the issue on the table so to speak.

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