Responding to images of police killings of Black people, the Pittsburgh-based queer Nigerian-Swedish-American multimedia artist
Mikael Owunna has worked to articulate an alternative vision of
the Black body as the incarnation of the eternal cosmos. Using his engineering background, Owunna built a camera flash that transmits only
ultraviolet light, and in each photoshoot he begins by
hand painting his sitters’ nude bodies with fluorescent paints that glow under ultraviolet light.
Yes, this looks amazing. Note: In addition to full entry appointments, there's nighttime front-window viewing every evening, 7-11pm.