Backyard Fights summer23 A visual and cultural history

A visual and cultural history of hip hop

From ceramic objects that reflect an extraordinary level of technical and aesthetic sophistication to dynamic sculptures and to video installations

and an essay by curator Kit Hammonds

Fernanda Brenner

Backyard Fights summer23 A visual and cultural historyYou fight it out. And then, after that, you hug it out, and you become friends. You know, you become closer, brothers, family. For five years, photographer Brian Finke documented StreetBeefs, an underground fight club in rural Virginia founded by an ex con named Scarface. Tired of seeing his community ravaged by preventable violence and drug use, and fueled by the distrust and failure of the prison system, Scarface began hosting fights, inviting