Oluwadara Beckè’s paintings grow out of the space between private imagination and public record, calling on you to reflect on the incongruently beautiful and disjointed African state of affairs. Ken Gwira’s sculpting technique does not see the marks on the wood as something to work around. Instead, he works with the grains as though they are the strokes of a paintbrush co-creating the piece with him. Weaving through Gwira and Beckè works, Nerissa Brobbey infuses ceremony and the memorialization of the past in the present with inflections of Afrofuturistic expression.
Untying is a journey through a dislocated modern world that invites you to make new forms through and with all of its contradictions.