American Artist will be participating in the group show I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen, curated by Alison Hearst at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. This thematic group exhibition examines the screen’s vast impact on art from 1969 to the present.

American Artist will be presenting “No State” (2018), a collective body of phones with broken screens. The title implies they are not functional or discarded but rather in between, challenging the ideology of high technology that encourages the discarding of devices that are not functioning in new factory condition. “No State” establishes a parallel between an electronic death and a social or even physical death. This works reminds us that despite the promises that the Internet would be a neutral field that could include any identity, anti-blackness has continued to permeate the digital terrain, especially since the Silicon Valley started to invest in making whiteness the standard.