Check Out Legacy & Rupture: A Reflection of Space & Time, an essay by Jaime Ernestina Ransome at http://www.city-gallery.org/blog
City Gallery is honored to present Legacy & Rupture, a group show curated by Howard el-Yasin. Works by Nathaniel Donnett, Sika Foyer, Merik Goma, James Montford, Ransome, Kamar Thomas, and Marisa Williamson. These 7 contemporary BIPOC artists’ works express the multiplicity of our identities framed by the everydayness of precarity, trauma, and memories. Critical black consciousness thinker Christina Sharpe reminds us that “the past that is not past reappears, always, to rupture the present.” If rupture, as such, is also understood to mean resistance, black aesthetic practitioners have the capacity to resist the historical materiality (race, class, gender, and sexuality) and the subjectivity of blackness. The artwork in this show explores differences in representation rather than the reproduction of blackness.
On view May 1 - 30, 2021 / City Gallery / 994 State Street / New Haven, CT 06511
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Check Out Legacy & Rupture: A Reflection of Space & Time, an essay by Jaime Ernestina Ransome at http://www.city-gallery.org/blog
Check Out Legacy & Rupture: A Reflection of Space & Time, an essay by Jaime Ernestina Ransome at http://www.city-gallery.org/blog