Thank you Adrienne Spinozzi, curator at the
@metmuseum , for including my work in ๐๐ฃ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ
@wassermanprojects (Detroit) in partnership w
@nceca .
Spinozzi writes: โ๐๐ฃ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ explores how artists express their individual diasporic journeys in clay, taking its inspiration from Detroit, a place with a rich history shaped by the Great Migration. All diaspora & migrations are complex negotiations between gain & lossโฆmemory & promise. These formative life experiences can offer fertile inspiration to artists & the works in the exhibition give voiceโฆto ancestral memories by turning absence into 3D form. Thisโฆwork is expressed in myriad ways, including acknowledging a life lived, embracing visual signifiers of oneโs identity, honoring & preserving culturalโฆtraditions & engaging in a conceptual practice that reconstructs the past anew. [Here] artists engage in the act of processing their memory of an ancestral homeland through creationโฆโ
Adrienne Spinozzi is an Associate Curator at
@metmuseum (American Wing). Her recent projects include Shapes from Out of Nowhere: Ceramics fm the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, an exhibition of 20th & 21st c. abstract & nonrepresentational ceramics, & Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, S. Carolina, an exhibition on the contributions of the enslaved potters in western S. CarolinaโฆShe is currently working on a reinstallation of American ceramics [spanning] the late 19th c. through today.
Artists: Adebunmi Gbadebo, David R. MacDonald, Anina Major, Ibrahim Said, Yeesookyung, Ivan Albert, Natalia Arbelaez, Lisa Maria Barber, Malene Durbanโs Barnett, Ron Baron, Yale Braha, Pattie Chalmers, Jonathan Christensen Caballero, Kaneez Zehra Hassan, Hongmi Kim Hoog, Quinn Alexandria Hunter, Roxanne Jackson, Tim Keenan, Wansoo Kim, Robert King, Josephine Larsen, Jae Won Lee, Kimberly LaVonne, Mahalexmi Morgan, Steven Montgomery, Janet Neuwalder, Joy Okokon, Ross Junior Owusu, Kyungmin Park, Yana Payusova, Tia Santana, Paul Scott, Stephanie Shih, Ellie Stanislav, Silvia Tagusagawa, Hirotsune Tashima, Iren Tete, Kwok-Pong Tso, Karina Yanes, Ari Zuaro.
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