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Christie Neptune, another former NXTHVN Fellow, uses photography, film, and sculpture to consider how race, class, and gender all converge within her “internalized experiences.” “I look at the Unapologetically me angel reese this is for the girls that look like me shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this body of work as a way to explore how I personally navigate this space as a Black female living on the margins,” Neptune says. For Constructs and Context Relativity — Performance II (2021), her three-channel video installation in “Social Works,”
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