In BLACK SPACE, Afatasi The Artist hones her fine art skills, her love of Afrofuturism, to dispel the progressive myth of her hometown of San Francisco, while honoring and highlighting spaces historically held by Black people within the city. Beautifully photographed in San Francisco’s historic Fillmore and Bayview-Hunter’s Point districts, by film maker/cinematographer/photographer extraordinaire, Jean Melesaine, SPACE in this work has many meanings. Afatasi sews traces of the of the city’s black experience together; BLACK SPACE is vital for the future of San Francisco.
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Here, Now and Beyond: Cities of the Afrofuture
Thursday, March 10 2022