Zora J Murff, At No Point In Between

03.07.21–28.08.21
Zora J Murff Freddy (talking about his home), 2019 16x20 inches Archival pigment print Edition of 5
Zora J Murff Roses, 2019 Variable: 16x20; 24x30; 32x40 Archival pigment print 5 + 3 AP
Zora J Murff Terri (talking about the freeway), 2019 32 x 40 inches Archival pigment print Edition of 5
Zora J Murff Intersection, 2019 24x30 inches Archival pigment print Edition of 5
Zora J Murff Survey 10 x 8 inches Archival pigment print Edition of 5
Zora J Murff Implement 10 x 8 inches Archival pigment print Edition of 5
Zora J Murff Jerrod and Junior (talking about fatherhood), 2019 32x40 inches Archival pigment print Edition of 5
Zora J Murff A Point (2), 2019 24x30 inches Archival pigment print Edition of 5
Zora J Murff Cross, 2019 24x30 inches Archival pigment print Edition of 5
Zora J Murff Flight, 2019 Archival pigment print Edition of 3
Zora J Murff Fight, 2019 10 x 8 inches Archival pigment print Edition of 5

At No Point in Between takes as its subject the African-American neighborhood of North Omaha, Nebraska. Showing portraits of the neighborhood’s inhabitants alongside urban landscapes, the series evokes a social environment profoundly determined by a succession of racist policies and by the injustice that has reigned there since its inception.

Combining humanist and topographical research on the one hand and archival analysis on the other, Murff focusses on the complex tangle of violence impacting the city’s black community: that of odious crimes, such as the lynching of Will Brown (1919), the assassination of Vivian Strong (1969) or the recent police violence documented on videos that have circulated widely through the social media; but also the systemic violence of governmental decisions that have affected the community slyly and no less calamitously, resulting in social and economic exclusion, such as the redlining of the neighborhood by urban planners. The bodies and the places we see here all bear the stigmata of racism, which remains today a dominant aspect of the Black experience in the United States.