Colour
Blind
Colour Blind uses portraiture and bold fields of colour to consider race, individuality and the complicated promise of a society that claims not to see difference.
Presented in 2019, the series continued Bing's exploration of Black portraiture through vibrant compositions that foreground the individuality, presence and humanity of his subjects.
The title deliberately holds a contradiction. While “colourblindness” can suggest an aspiration toward racial equality, it can also obscure the realities of prejudice, cultural heritage and perspectives shaped by lived experience.
40 x 60 in
40 x 60 in
40 x 60 in
DIMENSIONS
DIMENSIONS
DIMENSIONS
The series asks whether recognizing our shared humanity requires us to stop seeing difference.
Colour
Bold colour operates as both formal language and conceptual device, amplifying rather than neutralizing difference.
Identity
The portraits insist upon the individuality of their subjects while locating them within a broader conversation about race and representation.
Visibility
Rather than erase race in pursuit of equality, the series asks what becomes possible when difference is acknowledged without hierarchy.
Shared Humanity
Beneath the visual differences between us, the exhibition returns to the possibility of connection through a common humanity.
Colour Blind was presented across Toronto in 2019.
Colour Blind was curated by Ashley McKenzie-Barnes. The original exhibition opened June 15, 2019 at Neighbourhood Studios in Toronto.
To see one another fully is not to erase difference, but to recognize humanity without asking difference to disappear.