“Lines, Motions and Ritual” Exhibition

Magnan Metz Gallery

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Curated by Awam Amkpa

The artists in this exhibition use lines, motions and emotions to highlight the ways in which structures, patterns and rhythm function as modes of communication and socialization. Their work codifies these artistic processes to produce communities and rituals of identification. These creative productions introduce us to the history and conventions of art making within African and African Diasporic communities. Moreover, the artists blaze their own innovative trails by fashioning these diasporic conventions into art for contemporary audiences.

For all the artists, Africa, both as a geographical place and as a font of diaspora, has long served as an energizing if contentious context for producing, mediating, and sustaining art and art making. Their paintings, photography, sculptures, dance, and collages encourage meditation and conversations around the purpose of artistic methods, style, and reception as approaches to belonging. Together, they inscribe and frame a capacious Africa as subject of art-making all over the Atlantic world.

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from July 12, 2017 to August 18, 2017

Opening Reception on 2017-07-11 from 18:00 to 20:00

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