Diana Matar

Diana Matar American, b. 1962 Unknown African American Male, Surry, Texas, 2016 Archival inkjet print12 x 12 inch image on 16 1/2 x 16 1/2 inch paper Signed edition of 30   Diana Matar investigates topics of immigration, displacement, state-sponsored violence, and memory using photography and archives. After living for more than seventeen years abroad and creating an extensive project on the loss of her father-in-law to the Gaddafi regime in Libya, she began the series My America (2016–18) to consider police killings of citizens in her country. Photographing more than three hundred places over a two-year period, Matar’s project covers just a fraction of the total 2,200 deaths between 2016–18 at the hands of police. She uses an iPhone to capture the images as commentary on how social media makes many such incidents visible to the public. Matar creates her photographs in the exact spots where the police report lists the location of the murders, and their titles are simply the victim’s na