In an exhibit titled 'Fresh Up,' the Bahamian artist's portraits celebrating the connections between Black womanhood, liberation and personal style are on display.
Growing up, I used to watch my mother get ready to go out. It was one of my favorite things to do. She worked long hours during the week and would indulge in a night out every once in a while to unwind. I'd sit on her bed and watch her line her lips with brown pencil and pack neutral-toned eyeshadows on her eyelids. She'd drape herself in jewelry and then slip on her outfit. With the transformation complete, she left our apartment, confident and ready to take on the world.
That network of knowledge Swaby is referencing is Black feminist thought. Swaby began to think deeply about it after reading passages from bell hooks'"Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black.""It was like unlocking a whole new world for me of understanding. It doesn't have to be complicated to be complex. It can be extremely expansive ... without having to have all of the additional complications.
Through her portraits, Swaby also resists and strains against flattened caricatures of the Bahamas and its inhabitants that are often perpetuated by the tourism industry. Documenting personal style creates a"lexicon of Black Caribbean style and what that looks like in the contemporaryA lot of how we understand the Caribbean and Bahamian people is thought about in past tense." Swaby reminds viewers that the people of the Bahamas are living, breathing beings who exist in the present.
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