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‘I may pay rent to a friend for my place in Greensboro, but the
South’s my landlord; and I’m trapped in its stomach trying to
get to its brain. Here, I see butterflies with Confederate
flag-grown wings and minstrel vestiges of Daddy Rice collecting
dough. I can’t move because I’m stuck in Aunt Jemima’s
syrup.’ Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body is the highly
anticipated first book by artist, filmmaker, and writer RaMell
Ross. Bringing together Ross’s large-format photographs,
sculptures, conceptual works, and selected films, together with
illuminating texts by Ross and a host of writers, this ambitious
publication presents a chronicle of the American South that is both
mysterious and quotidian, a historical document and a radical
imagining of the future. The book opens with a series of
illuminating colour photographs from Hale County, Alabama, Ross’s
adoptive home and the setting of his Academy Award-nominated
documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018). It then
moves through a series of photographic and mixed-media works and
writings that examine, deconstruct, and rewrite visual
representations of the South. Amidst these works, at the book’s
heart, is Ross’s film Return to Origin, a remarkable conceptual
work in which Ross freight ships himself in a 4x8-foot box – a
nod to Henry Brown who shipped himself to freedom in 1849. With
Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body, Ross creates a new visual
narrative of the South, freed from its iconic meanings to reveal
the earth, dirt, soil, and land beneath. With texts by RaMell Ross,
Tracy K. Smith, Richard McCabe, and Scott Matthews
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