HHH #1
Artist: Fiona Foley (Australian, born 1964)
Date: 2004
Dimensions:
30 1/16 x 40 1/16 in.
Medium: Ultrachrome print on paper
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner in honor of Brian Kennedy
Object number: 2016.23
Label Text:This provocative photograph is part of a series titled HHH (Hedonistic Honky Haters), named for a fictional secret society invented by Indigenous Australian artist Fiona Foley. In Foley’s alternate history, the group was founded in the U.S. in 1965 in reaction to the Ku Klux Klan.
Foley’s photo reverses our usual perception of the KKK as the embodiment of white, racially-motivated violence and intimidation. With her striking depiction of a group of hooded figures dressed in colorful robes made from African textiles, Foley subverts the white hoods and robes so symbolic of white supremacist ideology. Her fictional activists turn the hate group into an object of satire and ridicule.
Foley’s photo reverses our usual perception of the KKK as the embodiment of white, racially-motivated violence and intimidation. With her striking depiction of a group of hooded figures dressed in colorful robes made from African textiles, Foley subverts the white hoods and robes so symbolic of white supremacist ideology. Her fictional activists turn the hate group into an object of satire and ridicule.
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