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Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics | ARTLECTURE
  • Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics
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Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics finds aesthetic connections among 60 artists working in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The exhibition and its catalogue are among the first to examine nearly a quarter century of production by Black artists. The project debuts new acquisitions for LACMA and expands the Pan-African exhibition canon, historically focused on the Black Atlantic, by showcasing artists working along the Pacific Rim. Nearly 70 works of painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and time-based media are organized into four themes: speech and silence, movement and transformation, imagination, and representation. Contemporary poets contributed original work to the catalogue, extending the historical use of poetry in Pan-African discourse. Diaspora’s general definition as a displacement from origins excludes all the creativity the term entails. People reinvent their heritage through artistic expressions, transforming diaspora from regional movement into a wellspring of imagination. Through an analysis of Black artists’ aesthetic choices, Imagining Black Diasporas reveals their insights about existence.

  Accepted  2024-12-15 12:19

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Contacts/Email : 5905 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles California CA 90036 United States LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art..


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Contacts/Email : 5905 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles California CA 90036 United States LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art