"Yo Mama's Last Supper" by Renee Cox

"Yo Mama's last supper" by Renee Cox is a photograph of an African-American woman with twelve African men dining in a long table just like Jesus and his disciples during the last supper. The African-American woman is naked.

I decided not to post the work here because I find it very disrespectful. It disrespects the Catholic Church because of how the work portrayed Jesus as a naked African American woman. I don't understand why the artist decided to do that. Renee Cox also disrepected Leonardo da Vinci because "Yo Mama's Last Supper" was patterned from Da Vinci's "Last Supper". I just feel that she made fun of Da Vinci's masterpiece. Renee Cox defended arguments against her work by saying that we are created in the image and likeness of God and that she can portray God like herself(an African-American woman). I just don't feel that there is a need to portray the teaching that we are created in the image and likeness of God literally. Renee Cox literally portrayed Jesus as a naked African woman. Why did the woman have to be nude? It just doesn't make sense. I learned that the main themes of her works(mostly photographs) are debunking stereotypes and empowering women. In "Yo Mama's Last Supper", I'm guessing that she wanted to debunk the stereotype that men are more capable to be leaders that's why she portrayed Jesus as a woman.

Renee's argument is really strong but the photograph still disturbs me.