“I am often told that I am “racially ambiguous”. “So…what are you?”, this question demands that I name my meat, the thing that is most visibly me; a clarification of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender etc. Black. Filipina. Queer. Female. The subtext of these words act as guidelines that instruct on how to treat…others. As Much You As Me carefully meditates on what a body is and the politics associated with our meat through an accumulation of small intimate intentional gestures.”

-Stephanie J. Williams

 

To title this new work for the Alloy Project, Stephanie borrowed a phrase from former Executive Director Lily Siegel’s curatorial statement for Stephanie’s solo-exhibition in 2019. Things That Don’t Have Names was on view at Tephra ICA April 23 – June 22, 2019. The exhibition was a solo show of meaty landscapes, sometimes of familiar parts; a navel here, tuft of hair there, orifice and perturbance abound, tucked and stitched together as a warm welcome of not knowing specifically…what things are.  Stephanie is also Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Tephra ICA.