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Artist Allan de Souza discuss “Bodies in Transit,” the topic of much of his work, in a free public lecture at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday (Oct. 13) in the Hanes Art Center Auditorium. His talk is part of the Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series presented by the art department.

deSouza’s photographs, installations, performances and sculptures examine the transitional body, whether moving from one place to another, masquerading or passing, morphing into other forms or as the site of physical and psychic contamination. In his “Divine” series (2008), photographs taken from airplane windows depict the landscape below as haunted by phantom bodies.

Born in Kenya and raised in England, deSouza holds a bachelor’s degree from Bath Academy of Art in England and a master’s of fine art in photography from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has participated in an independent study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

deSouza has exhibited photographic and sculptural works addressing the racialized or sexualized body at museums and galleries in Britain, the United States and elsewhere, including the Photographers Gallery, London; the Whitney Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Miami, and Vancouver Art Gallery in British Columbia. His fiction and critical writings have appeared in journals and anthologies.

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Cutline: “Divine 3815,” 2008, a view of Earth from the air, print by Allan de Souza, courtesy of the artist and Talwar Gallery, New York City.

Art department contact: John Bowles, (919) 962-0728