Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone, 2013
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- Artist
vanessa german
- Title
Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone
- Date
2013
- Medium
Mixed-media assemblage
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; bequest of Peggy Cooper Cafritz (1947–2018), Washington, D.C. collector, educator, and activist
As a self-taught visual storyteller, vanessa german works across sculpture, performance, photography, and community-led rituals to expose, repair, and restructure trauma-induced spaces and systems. The artist’s practice centers around promoting healing, tenderness, and raising consciousness. With Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone, german gifts viewers a talisman to provide safety and relief in replacement of calling the police.
Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone, 2013
![](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/Reality-Check-To-Call-Police-Use-This-Phone.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
- Artist
vanessa german
- Title
Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone
- Date
2013
- Medium
Mixed-media assemblage
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; bequest of Peggy Cooper Cafritz (1947–2018), Washington, D.C. collector, educator, and activist
As a self-taught visual storyteller, vanessa german works across sculpture, performance, photography, and community-led rituals to expose, repair, and restructure trauma-induced spaces and systems. The artist’s practice centers around promoting healing, tenderness, and raising consciousness. With Reality Check: To Call Police Use This Phone, german gifts viewers a talisman to provide safety and relief in replacement of calling the police.