Shefon N. Taylor (b. 1988, Wilmington, DE) is an interdisciplinary artist interrogating themes of rememory, interiority, and the exceptional found in the Black vernacular.
Her choice of collage as a medium is a fascination with its impulse, delicacy, and compromise. It functions as an aesthetic engagement and an archival effort to amplify the ordinariness of Black life through vernacular photography.
As a guide, Shefon points to Toni Morrison’s concept of rememory,” as in recollecting and remembering as in reassembling the members of the body, the family, the population of the past.”
The artist connects to the history of found objects and archival photographs and engages their willingness to become a new thing. The combination of the texture of memory and the vestiges of yesterday serves as a way to encounter the past, present, and future. Shefon cites artists such as Toni Morrison, Carrie Mae Weems, and Lorna Simpson as influences on her work.
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