Carl Robert Pope

His work address issues related to race in America, specifically the social conditions of African Americans.

It will be our ability to make innovative choices that will give us real stability and duration in our evolution as humans at this moment in history.”[3] Pope was born in 1961 in Indianapolis, Indiana,.

[7] In this video installation, “Pope posits his body and consciousness as the embodiment of society’s negative assumptions about race, gender and identity in all of its complexities”.

The video showed Pope’s body being altered in ways to highlight how race is perceived as an intrinsic trait, rather than a superficial one.

In fact, in the last segment of the video, Pope has a poem written by his sister tattooed across his entire body.