April Banks and Amanda Williams collaborated on this photographic diptycha dialogue about the prevalence of double entendres in rap music/popular culture. The title of the work, One More Chance (Remix), a line from rapper Biggie Smalls' song, was specifically chosen as a point of creative departure because of its simultaneously offensive and seductive nature.
The artists explore the term "Double Exposure" literally as a photographic technique and conceptually as it relates to the dupilicitous intent of the song. Similar to rap's coupling of bravado and poetics, the two images work in tandem to illustrate how the lyrics are absent of their true contextan idea that is a fantastical play on meaning.
Influenced by the early 20th century photography movement, Pictorialism, the images are intentionally impressionistic and on the verge of being still life. The body becomes landscape and the landscape becomes body; implying a destination to be "crept" into and exposed.
Both April and Amanda bring their spatial awareness as former architects into their individual artistic processes. They have collaborated on several past projects. Williams often uses rap lyrics in her paintings as a way of interrogating her coming of age affinity with the genre. Banks aims to create works that are disturbingly beautiful.
April is an installation artist and photographer. She lives and works in Oakland, CA. Amanda is a painter and photographer who has studios in Chicago, IL and Oakland, CA.