Fri 1/15 @ 6-8PM
The gallery at Praxis Fiber Arts debuts an ambitious new exhibit this week, titled I Hear You Now I see You Then. The work, by North Carolina sculptor/performance artist Quinn Alexandra Hunter aims to do no less than “uncover, elevate and challenge the erasure of the labor of enslaved African-American Women in the antebellum south from the contemporary architectural spaces and landscapes.”
“These art objects refer to the luxury objects that were able to be purchased from the profit made from enslaved labor,” says Hunter in her artist statement. “Each set of objects is tailored to a specific plantation home and site that is using erasure to profit from these places of historic pain. All the sites referenced here are presently used as wedding venues. It is only through erasure that such a happy event can be held in a space of such grand historic pain. I am not only re-inscribing the history of enslaved labor back into these sites but connecting the historic Black body to the contemporary Black body.”
The show runs through Sunday February 28. To attend the virtual reception go here.
Cleveland, OH 44110
Cleveland, OH 44110