Isaac Julien: MAK Center for Art and Architecture.(Critical Essay)

Isaac Julien's recent exhibition at MAK Center for Art and Architecture consisted of a group of photographs, some of them triptychs, which are stills from a fourteen-minute film (not shown here) shot in Iceland and northern Sweden in 2004. Collectively titled "True North," these works offer a loose retelling and interpretation--what Julien has called a "re-memorizing"--of the story of Matthew Henson.

This underacknowledged African American was the right-hand man upon whom Robert E. Peary depended for the success of his 1909 expedition to the North Pole, and was ...

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