Artist
Kennedi CarterAmerican, born 1998
CultureAmerican
Titles
- When Hands Touch
- from the series East Durham Love
Date2018, printed 2022
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 29 15/16 × 22 9/16 in. (76.1 × 57.3 cm)
Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 9/16 in. (76.1 × 57.3 cm)
Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 9/16 in. (76.1 × 57.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mary O'Hearn, Jereann Chaney, Shelley Anne Calton and Stuart Chancellor Nelson, Peter Morris, Aimee McCrory, and H. Rashed Haq
Object number2022.197
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the loneliness of pandemic isolation, “When Hands Touch” now seems like a prescient antidote to troubled times, celebrating physical and emotional intimacy and presenting an image of young African Americans contrary to the media stereotypes more commonly presented.
ProvenanceThe artist; [RoseGallery, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
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