Cassandra Mayela Allen, Looking Sharp, 2023
Dye sublimation on repurposed fabrics and garments
70 × 55 × 0.5 inches
$9,000
Mayela Allen sees barber shops, bodegas, and beauty salons as cultural abodes of aesthetic becoming. Simultaneously, she notes that these spaces perpetually shape-shift to keep up with the demands of gentrification— altering their appearances and offerings to cater beyond their immediate demographic.
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