“Let Her Eat Grapes!”
“‘Let Her Eat Grapes!’ is an interrogation of Dutch still life painting by insertion of black female body into the work. This is meant to illuminate the tension between aestheticizing the abundance that appears in the domestic sphere, while the Dutch were capitalizing off of black bodies through slavery at the same point in history.” - Madelyne Beckles
For PopRally Presents Petra Collins: In Search of Us, artists Madelyne Beckles, Aleia Murawski, and Grace Miceli have created videos to re-examine the canonical representation of the female body through a series of original, short artist videos conceived with Petra Collins.
This contemporary take on the 19th-century Salon des Indépendants will be released over the course of this week on MoMA’s Instagram in advance of Saturday’s PopRally Presents Petra Collins: In Search of Us event, where a site-specific, live tableau will confront these very notions IRL, along with Junglepussy’s live rap anthems, DJ set by Madeline Poole, open bar, and gallery access. More information and tickets available at mo.ma/PopRallyxPetra
