Nelson Bourrec Carter

Nelson Bourrec Carter is a French-American artist whose art practice combines film, photography and installations. Raised between Paris and New York, he questions his African American heritage and how learning about a culture that is both intimate and foreign entails fantasy, as well as a negotiated belonging and appropriation. He is interested in the objects of popular culture, such as television series and the history of cinema, especially as they relate to the representations of minorities and landscapes, whether they be urban, peri-urban, or rural. He demonstrates that these visual tropes are more interconnected than they appear and that they articulate questions of gender, race, and class, while raising the issue of which bodies – whether they are embodied or inscribed in a ghostlike manner within the architecture – occupy the spaces of representation in the American cultural economy.