{"product_id":"passports-keisha-scarville","title":"Passports","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW185082024 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePassports\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW185082024 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003epresents an intimate body of work by Keisha\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003eScarville\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etaken from an ongoing series centred around her father’s earliest passport photograph. The artist has reinterpreted the photograph over three hundred times to date, each iteration reworked and collaged with varying materials and found imagery – paints, beads, photograph fragments of Black bodies, gold leaf, glitter – to form a deeply textured act of photomontage. Interwoven with the passport works are archival images taken between the 1960s and 1980s in Guyana and New York City, where her father settled in the US, his self-portraits,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003eScarville’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eown photographs of him and of Guyana’s striking landscape, and short transcripts of their conversations. Together these works excavate untold histories and disrupt the false neutrality of the passport image in an interrogation of citizenship and personhood,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003eabsence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand materiality. Drawing on all these strands, the book examines and reimagines diaspora, bureaucratic images, and the archive, asking what it means to understand a person, especially a loved one, through an image.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"335551550\":6,\"335551620\":6}' class=\"EOP SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW185082024 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003eWith a new text by Tina M.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003eCampt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003e, Professor of Humanities at Princeton University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"335551550\":6,\"335551620\":6}' class=\"EOP SCXW185082024 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52294853689626,"sku":"PASSPORTS-K-SCARVILLE","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/3793\/files\/passports_28f8ea50-2dce-4134-b758-018bf93da73d.jpg?v=1779995368","url":"https:\/\/villagebooks.co\/products\/passports-keisha-scarville","provider":"Village","version":"1.0","type":"link"}