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  • Al-An deSouza, September, 1991, digital print on Baryta paper, 23 3⁄4 × 31 5⁄8". From the series “Elegies of Futures Past (and Other Fugue States),” 2018–19.

    Al-An deSouza, September, 1991, digital print on Baryta paper, 23 3⁄4 × 31 5⁄8". From the series “Elegies of Futures Past (and Other Fugue States),” 2018–19.

    Al-An deSouza

    Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

    Al-An deSouza has created art across various mediums for more than three decades, examining and embodying transnationality in spite of racism and colonialism. The California-based artist, writer, and educator, a self-described “diasporan,” was born in 1958 in Kenya to parents of Goan descent—five years before the former declared independence from England and three years prior to India annexing the latter, which ended Portugal’s rule over the state. Their exhibition here, “Elegies of Futures Past,” featured a nonchronological installation of works from four photo-based series: “The Lost Pictures,”

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