February 26-April 10, 2022
Drawing upon divination practices from chess strategy, archetypal mythologies, and African diasporic traditions, Angela Hennessy's "As I Live and Breathe" is compelled by the impulse to look up at the stars; to read the skies for origin and orientation.
The exhibition title is a statement of testimony from the position of a material witness while simultaneously invoking the body of the witness-living and breathing, therefore a challenge to notions of assumed neutrality.
Through her use of material and activation of space, Angela Hennessy offers us a new prism to examine our relationship to death and life, the celestial and the mundane, and all that exists in between. We are asked, "How does our understanding of mortality, specifically as Black, Indigenous, people of color, shape the way we move through the world? What does it mean to practice both surrender and agency?"
Free
Presented by SOMArts Cultural Center.
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Drawing upon divination practices from chess strategy, archetypal mythologies, and African diasporic traditions, Angela Hennessy's "As I Live and Breathe" is compelled by the impulse to look up at the stars; to read the skies for origin and orientation.
The exhibition title is a statement of testimony from the position of a material witness while simultaneously invoking the body of the witness-living and breathing, therefore a challenge to notions of assumed neutrality.
Through her use of material and activation of space, Angela Hennessy offers us a new prism to examine our relationship to death and life, the celestial and the mundane, and all that exists in between. We are asked, "How does our understanding of mortality, specifically as Black, Indigenous, people of color, shape the way we move through the world? What does it mean to practice both surrender and agency?"
Free
Presented by SOMArts Cultural Center.
February 26-April 10, 2022
Drawing upon divination practices from chess strategy, archetypal mythologies, and African diasporic traditions, Angela Hennessy's "As I Live and Breathe" is compelled by the impulse to look up at the stars; to read the skies for origin and orientation.
The exhibition title is a statement of testimony from the position of a material witness while simultaneously invoking the body of the witness-living and breathing, therefore a challenge to notions of assumed neutrality.
Through her use of material and activation of space, Angela Hennessy offers us a new prism to examine our relationship to death and life, the celestial and the mundane, and all that exists in between. We are asked, "How does our understanding of mortality, specifically as Black, Indigenous, people of color, shape the way we move through the world? What does it mean to practice both surrender and agency?"
Free
Presented by SOMArts Cultural Center.
read more
Drawing upon divination practices from chess strategy, archetypal mythologies, and African diasporic traditions, Angela Hennessy's "As I Live and Breathe" is compelled by the impulse to look up at the stars; to read the skies for origin and orientation.
The exhibition title is a statement of testimony from the position of a material witness while simultaneously invoking the body of the witness-living and breathing, therefore a challenge to notions of assumed neutrality.
Through her use of material and activation of space, Angela Hennessy offers us a new prism to examine our relationship to death and life, the celestial and the mundane, and all that exists in between. We are asked, "How does our understanding of mortality, specifically as Black, Indigenous, people of color, shape the way we move through the world? What does it mean to practice both surrender and agency?"
Free
Presented by SOMArts Cultural Center.
show less
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