"My films and artwork are about responding to daily materials, conditions, tasks and gestures of people of African descent. These materials, systems, tasks and gestures are repositioned through a variety of mediums such as photography, film, sculpture, artist books and paintings. The results usually have a formal reference to art history and resemble objects or images seen in working class culture. This strategy invites the work to be interpreted by a variety of communities. Over the past ten years I have completed two feature films and over twenty-five short 16mm, 35mm and digital films about the working class culture of Black Americans and other people of African descent."
Kevin Jerome Everson
Photographer, moviemaker
"Recently I have been responding to the performance of peoples of African descent in old film footage as if it were theater. Either by reenacting the films or just using the footage, I am attempting to create an archive of these performances".