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Rachell Morillo

Rachell Morillo is a writer, educator, and artist from the Dominican Republic based in New York City. Guiding both her writing and making processes are interests in Black queer theory, critical fabulation, and embodiment as knowledge production.

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Electric Images: Ming Smith’s Transcendent Photography

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo June 22, 2021June 22, 2021

Evidence, the inaugural show at Nicola Vassell Gallery, emphasizes Smith’s track record as a photographer who both loves and riffs on the language of her medium.

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Laura Aguilar’s Liberatory Gaze

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo April 6, 2021April 7, 2021

Aguilar was a rare photographer who never erased herself, shifting the ethics of photographer-subject dynamics.

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Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

A prophetic document of our time, the New Museum exhibition calls attention to the weight of Black death not because it is new or salacious but because it remains urgent.

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Behind the Mask: Photographers Reflect on Black Vulnerability

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo February 11, 2021February 12, 2021

We Wear the Mask treads a fine line between opacity and revealing truth in its rawest form.

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The Living Legacy of the Kamoinge Workshop, a Force in Black Photography

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo January 20, 2021January 19, 2021

The influential collective created a rigorous yet non-hierarchical sphere of influence, which challenges the very tidiness of retrospectives like Working Together.

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Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You Is a Brilliant Meditation on Consent

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo August 24, 2020November 5, 2020

Chronicling a young writer’s experience in the aftermath of a sexual assault, the series captures the pain, absurdity, and murkiness of rape culture, refusing to ever tie a neat bow.

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Queen & Slim Traverses Trauma on Repeat but Never Delves Deeper

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo February 18, 2020February 18, 2020

This is a film that wants to contend with Black grit and intellectualism, to walk the street and sit in the ivory tower. But in failing to acknowledge the nuances of each, it flattens and compounds these different facets of Blackness into nameless characters.

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Kia LaBeija Shelters a Queer, Black Femme Story of Collective Liberation

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo November 18, 2019November 17, 2019

The strength in LaBeija’s Performa debut comes from her ability to use Oskar Shlemmer’s Bauhaus ballet as an outline, while organically combining the talents of people in her community.

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How Socialism Shaped Africa Between Independence and the End of the Cold War

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo October 2, 2019October 2, 2019

After the End offers a selection of works from artists with personal relationships to, and experiences of, socialism in countries such as Angola, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.

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Pose Is a Much-Needed Ode to Legacy in the Black and Latinx LGBTQ Community

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo August 23, 2019August 23, 2019

The groundbreaking television show’s second season speaks to the immense power of chosen family.

Our Place: to the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome
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Our Place: to the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome

Tom Osgood’s final sculptures accompany design objects by his daughter Ravenna that celebrate domestic joys. On view at form & concept in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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