McCallum Tarry

In Evenly Yoked (2010), their latest collaborative video endeavor and part of the Projection series, McCallum and Tarry explore their relationship as an interracial couple, this time through the lens of a series of interconnected and historically bound narratives. Dressed intermittently as a contemporary couple on their wedding day, an aristocratic couple in the antebellum south, and a Confederate soldier and a slave, the artists look at race relations on an intimate scale over time and across space. These three sets of roles permit McCallum and Tarry to investigate the tensions of their bond as well as the personal, cultural and historical challenges that have informed it as they employ these iconic characters and enact their experiences. Seamlessly shifting between the sentiments of brides and grooms on their wedding day, and the prickly power structures dictated by stereotypes of race and gender in the antebellum south, the artists negotiate the intense presence of the painful bonds and joyful distinctions inherent in their, and indeed all, conjugal relations.

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