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Artists from A-Z Tourmaline

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  • It's giving Countach (2022)
    It's giving Countach
    Artist: Tourmaline Dating: 2022 Type: Photography Material: Digital c-print Measures: 24,9 x 24,9 cm Acces / purchase date: 2022 Inventory number: 1696 Copyright: Courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY, New York. Photo by Charles Benton
  • Silver Cloud I (2022)
    Silver Cloud I
    Artist: Tourmaline Dating: 2022 Type: Photography Material: Gelatin silver print Measures: 24,9 x 24,9 cm Acces / purchase date: 2022 Inventory number: 1695 Copyright: Courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY, New York. Photo by Charles Benton
  • Sweptail (2022)
    Sweptail
    Artist: Tourmaline Dating: 2022 Type: Photography Material: Gelatin silver print Measures: 24,9 x 24,9 cm Acces / purchase date: 2022 Inventory number: 1694 Copyright: Courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY, New York. Photo by Charles Benton
  • Phantom VIII (2022)
    Phantom VIII
    Artist: Tourmaline Dating: 2022 Type: Photography Material: Gelatin silver print Measures: 24,9 x 24,9 cm Acces / purchase date: 2022 Inventory number: 1693 Copyright: Courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY, New York. Photo by Charles Benton
  • Silver Wraith (2022)
    Silver Wraith
    Artist: Tourmaline Dating: 2022 Type: Photography Material: Gelatin silver print Measures: 24,9 x 24,9 cm Acces / purchase date: 2022 Inventory number: 1692 Copyright: Courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY, New York. Photo by Charles Benton
Tourmaline is an artist, writer and transgender activist working mainly with video and photography to create elaborately staged scenes that honour living and historical figures of LGBTQI+ movements and queer culture. Using found footage and other archival material to investigate these subjects, the artist’s approach is influenced by scholar Saidiya Hartman’s notion of ‘critical fabulation’, which privileges fiction and speculation in (re)writing marginalised histories that have been erased or mis-transmitted in official sources. In these works, narrative tools are used for their politically empowering potential and help trace an imagined genealogy of Black queer figures, in which Tourmaline can also be inscribed.

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