Unapologetic

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Systemic racism has always perpetuated a steady stream of negative portrayals of African Americans in American media.  Moreover, stereotypical portrayals of Black people seem to have proliferated unchecked on social media. However, Marcel's Unapologetic stands as a powerful body of work that challenges and rejects these harmful stereotypes, offering a compelling counter-narrative. Inspired the Afrofuturism movement, Marcel hopes his work "reinterprets, and reclaims the past by reimagining a more empowering future for African Americans.”  Utilizing artificial intelligence, photography, and live models, Marcel is creating a body of work that reflects an African sensibility which displays dignified and iconographic images of Black life. 

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All of these works are acrylic on canvas or acrylic and paper on canvas.