![]() ![]() ![]() Gottesman quickly realized that the subject of banned books was the perfect way to entwine the work he has done around Oromay with concerns relevant to audiences in the US. “This isn’t just a thing that we hear about in the news, it’s very present and close,” he said. When Gottesman was first exploring the idea of a banned books reading room, he was “shocked” to realize that school districts just an hour or two away from New York City had banned books like Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Jazz Jennings’s Being Jazz, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Beloved. The multimedia show, which encourages audiences to develop their skills for “radical listening”, includes a banned books annex featuring books that have been prohibited in American schools since 2021. Selections from Gottesman’s Oromaye Project – in which the artist uses Oromay as a template for creative photographic work – are on display at Fotografiska in New York through 22 October in the show Listen Until You Hear, co-curated by Michelle Woo and Jun Mabachi of the artist collective For Freedoms, and Amanda Hajjar and Meredith Breech of Fotografiska New York. ![]()
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