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SOL'SAX's
installation at Momenta, entitled SOL'SNIPPED: Strange Fruit
from the Concrete Jungle, seeks to transform society by finding agency
through language. In his work, English is recontextaulized by using the
same kinds of puns and wordplay common in the Yoruban culture brought
to the United States by West African slaves. Incorporating this strategy,
Sax expands the narrow definitions of English words by using visceral
and immediate materials. The work presented includes stacked coke bottles
that evoke stalks of sugar cane (i.e. coke-cane), and SOL'SNYPD or Sol's
N.Y.P.D, which evokes how souls are snipped by an unjust application of
power. Rigorously
interconnected, this work addresses contemporary enslavement through legal
codes of repression - as well the social empowerment made possible through
its subversion.
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