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TAMERA AVERY
Tamera Avery considers our contemporary social, political, and environmental landscape, while celebrating champions of change - who are often young - with their increasingly powerful voices and determination to rearrange the balance of power. To visually shift this balance, Avery’s subjects wear masks and costumes that augment their agency. Inspired by the dramatically and often absurdly adorned characters from folk carnivals celebrating the arrival of spring, the artist employs handmade costumes for her models, to portray figures that are both modest in composition yet “heroic” …