Artworks

Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone, 2013

  • Artist

    vanessa german

  • Title

    Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone

  • Date

    2013

  • Medium

    Mixed-media assemblage

  • Dimensions

    46 × 24 × 14 inches (116.8 × 61.0 × 35.6 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; bequest of Peggy Cooper Cafritz (1947–2018), Washington, D.C. collector, educator, and activist

As a self-taught visual storyteller, vanessa german works across sculpture, performance, photography, and community-led rituals to expose, repair, and restructure trauma-induced spaces and systems. The artist’s practice centers around promoting healing, tenderness, and raising consciousness. With Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone, german gifts viewers a talisman to provide safety and relief in replacement of calling the police.


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Artworks

Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone, 2013

  • Artist

    vanessa german

  • Title

    Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone

  • Date

    2013

  • Medium

    Mixed-media assemblage

  • Dimensions

    46 × 24 × 14 inches (116.8 × 61.0 × 35.6 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; bequest of Peggy Cooper Cafritz (1947–2018), Washington, D.C. collector, educator, and activist

As a self-taught visual storyteller, vanessa german works across sculpture, performance, photography, and community-led rituals to expose, repair, and restructure trauma-induced spaces and systems. The artist’s practice centers around promoting healing, tenderness, and raising consciousness. With Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone, german gifts viewers a talisman to provide safety and relief in replacement of calling the police.


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