Denzel T. Russell


töne des blau Photo: Nana Tazuke

11.03.2020 Museum for Applied Arts Cologne (MAKK)
An der Rechtschule, 50667 Cologne

12-14.03.2020 The Chocolate Museum
Am Schokoladenmuseum 1a, 50678 Cologne

töne des blau
Construction site lighting, coloured filters

töne des blau is an installation by Denzel T. Russell merging light towers commonly used on constructions sites with different colored gels to highlight forgotten and not commonly known landmarks in Köln. The work draws reference from Russell’s experience growing up in New York where lighting has historically been used as a form of surveillance against people of color and those that reside in low-income communities. Russell pairs the light towers with various shades of blue, abstracting its original oppressive function as they are installed throughout the city.

Denzel T. Russell
born 1989 in Brooklyn, New York [us]
lives and works in Cologne [de]

since 2020	Diploma II, Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM)
2016	Bachelor of Fine Arts, Alfred University, New York [us]

exhibitions (selecsted)

2020	Rep Your Set, Galerie Norbert Arns, Köln
2019	April 26, 2018, Keller Lichter (Gold+Beton), Köln Batoz Ladder, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York How the Other ½ Lived, St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church, New York
2016	people sometimes, die, Edel Assanti, London [gb]

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