With twenty-five years of practice across the Black Atlantic and Circum-Caribbean bodies of water, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc. offers the contours of the contemporary transnational lived Diasporan. “Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City” is both a statement and an invitation to art and visual culture constituencies.
— Curator — Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator. — Photographs By Denny Henry
Michael Elliott: Brixton One, 2019, Painting on paper, 41 3/4 x 31 3/4 inches
Michael Elliott: Empire’s Pot, 2018, Limited edition of seven digital photograph on archival paper, 28 1/2 x 36 inches
The exhibit invites viewers to journey on with the artists. The “Creole City” is not one but multiple: Miami, West Palm Beach, Havana, Paramaribo, Port-au-Prince, Mexico City, Kingston, Pointe-à-Pitre, Washington DC, New York, and Atlanta from where the works radiate to the host city. The exhibition is an intersection, a cosmologically charged crossroad. It is the meeting point between the world of the living and ancestors. The collection of works exemplifies Martinican Edouard “poetics of relation.” The visitors walk away with a vision of an art world constructed in relation and not in isolation which contests all forms of monolingualism and monoculturalism.
Aisha Tandiwe Bell: Breaking Head, 2019, ceramics heads, dimensions variable
Katrina Coombs: Invasion I, 2017, mixed fibers, wire mesh, 96 x 96 x 6 inches
Tyler Mitchell: Untitled, (Topanga #1), 2017–2019, archival pigment print, mounted, and framed, 51 1/4 x 76 3/4 inches
The Exhibition and programmes are made possible with leading support from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and The Ford Foundation. With support from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS), National Performance Network (NPN), and State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Presented by and in collaboration with Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc. and The George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. dvcai.org/diaspora-art | Alix Pierre, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer and Director of Cultural Orientation, Spelman College DVCAI Scholar in Residence