"The Guardians of Nyala" 2024
Tyanna J. Buie
The Guardians of Nyala
Single Channel Video
Run time: 3:58
Revisionist History
“Revisionist History” is an exhibition which features works appropriated and reappropriated from 17th Century Dutch engraving portraits of Political leaders. In collaboration with ChatGPT, their history and stories are rewritten and reimagined as a triumphant narrative that considers the irreparable geographical and socioecological ramifications of colonialism.
With an acknowledgement of Afro-Futurism, the use of technology enables me to consider alternate inclusive versions of the world where the invisible is made visible. Video, print media, painting, drawing, collage, screen-printing, and Deep-Fake technology constructed from excerpts derived from social media and black popular cultural platforms, while inevitably altering the images to reflect the contemporary condition, through accessible tools such as smartphone applications ReFace, constructs an intersectional identity between self-portraiture, personal narrative, family history, pop-culture, Black cultural significant moments, social movements, and authorship allows me to challenge my history through the retelling of past and current events, by the remaking of images, sound, and text, as I reimagine the future.