Michelle Handelman
Hustlers & Empires, 2020
Set of 20 archival prints
19 x 13 inches (48.26 x 33.02 cm)
Edition of 5, +1 AP 

$ 1300 unframed, in archival box

Made in collaboration with the Rauschenberg Foundation Residency in Captiva, Florida in early 2020, this special edition of 20 archival prints revisits Handelman’s recent feature-length, multichannel video project Hustlers & Empires (2018). Originally commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hustlers & Empires explores transgression as a mode of survival, examining the complicated relationship between pleasure and risk and how identity is formed in resistance to oppression. Part opera, part manifesto, the project draws on Handelman’s own experience of growing up among drug dealers and pimps during the 1970s, as well as the stories of three real and imagined hustlers: Iceberg Slim's Pimp (1967), Marguerite Duras's The Lover (1984) and Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit (1968).

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