Journeying, containment, carrying
Within the programming of
Raw Material Company| Target audience: | General public |
This collective exhibition is conceived as vessel capable of holding a polyphony of experiences and gestures, and as exploratory dialogue between practices that pours out into and draws in the local communities of La Casa E.
Braiding the work of a group of women artists whose practice engages with their African and mixed diasporic heritage to surface contemporary narratives of remembrance, belonging, and notions of return as wayward dreams of home, the exhibition strives to intersect the architectural and the artistic, presenting diverse work by artists that reflect their histories and personal ideas.
The title alludes to the movement – literal and metaphorical - across seas, continents, geographies, and inner landscapes that is typical of the diasporic disposition. It alludes to the many forms - emotional, material, spatial - that we contain and carry as we journey, sometimes with the intention to transform, recontextualise, or to just let be.
Attendant to the work of those that trace the paths of the past to complicate our understanding of the present and conjure new narratives of Black possibility, the exhibition signals African and African diasporic iconography, cosmology, and epistemology that speak through, under and across Western, patriarchal, and colonised framing of the world. At times taking a speculative turn, sometimes the historical, and others the metaphysical, but always a space in which Black female aesthetic expression is contemporary gesture for deciphering the world and our place in it.
Artists include: Binta Diaw, Ana Pi, Tako Taal y Frida Robles Ponce.
Amina Lawal Agoro is a researcher and cultural producer who moves between the UK and West Africa, working across geographies to mediate between the points of connection and tension between cultures. She is currently pursuing a practical PhD at the intersection of architectural heritage and curatorial research.
