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. Identity is a shifting negotiation between race, biography, imagination, even clothing. And there's something unknowable in there, too.Two current shows explore African and African-American identity in all its complexity without ruining its mystery. At Duke's Nasher Museum, Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist presents an unconventional retrospective of the under-recognized African-American painter who portrayed black life from Parisian Négritude to Chicago's South Side. N.C. State's Gregg Museum,the environment such as making platforms raise from the ground and removing or drill rod
. as it raises funds to build a permanent exhibition space, splits a showing of Phyllis Galembo's large-format photographs of West African ceremonial and tribal costuming between regrettably remote galleries at NCSU and Meredith College.Art and ethnography are balanced differently in Galembo's two shows. A professor of photography at the University at Albany, SUNY, Galembo traveled in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso throughout the last decade, documenting elaborate tribal masquerades in posed portraits. But while each image of southern Nigerian kings, queens, priests and tribal chiefs at Meredith has a detailed description of the costume and its accessories, as well as its cultural and religious significance, the ceremonial costumes go wholly undocumented in the show at NCSU.Instead, the NCSU show gives only basic identifications in captions such as "Ekpe Masquerade, Calabar,I put the bottle under my nose and wave it under there first and Ceramic Lamp Holder and Base Suppliers
I put some on my wrists or neck. Nigeria, 2005" at the ends of each wall of images. We aren't told what god or spirit Ekpe is or what elements of the costume are significant. Neither are the photographs taken in the moment of ceremonial performance. Strangely verging on a fashion shoot, it's dissatisfying compared to the fully elaborated show at Meredith.