‘Berkeley bank hold-up’ © Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa.
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa discusses his book One Wall a Web, which gathers together work from two photographic series, Our Present Invention (2012-14) and All My Gone Life (2014-17), as well as two text collages all made in and focused specifically on the United States. Through a mixture of writing, portraiture, landscape and appropriated archival images, the book describes quotidian encounters with fraught desire, uneven freedom, irrational fear and deep structural division, asking whether the historical and contemporary realities of anti-Black and gendered violence—when treated as aberrations—do not, in fact, serve to veil violence’s essential function in the maintenance of ‘civil’ society.
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