Today’s guest is Jamil Hellu, visual artist based in the Bay Area whose work deals with issues of identity relating to race, queer sexuality, and gender. We discuss his path to becoming an artist and how his art practice has grown over the years.
“100 Years of Solitude,” 2014
In response to the anti-LGBTQ law passed in Russia in 2013, and Moscow’s ruling to block permissions to organize pride parades for the next 100 years.
“Rider,” 2016
“By wearing my grandmother’s rebozo on my head, I celebrate not only my ancestral maternal tradition but my own feminine expression of the mother goddess within,” affirms Lorenzo Lambertino, a Mexican of Lebanese heritage.
Hues Project, 2018.
“Jamil Hellu: Together” at SF Camerawork, 2020.
(Image credit: Senny Mau)
“Jamil Hellu: Together” at SF Camerawork, 2020.
(Image credit: Senny Mau)
