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Wade<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Curated by Mae A. Miller-Likhethe<\/strong><\/h3>\n

May <\/span>31<\/span> \u2013 July 21, 2024<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Kaplan Gallery<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Drawing inspiration from the African American spiritual \u201cWade in the Water,\u201d Wade<\/em> foregrounds questions of Black lifeways and abolition geographies in the African diaspora. Through explorations of Black Atlantic cosmologies and political cultures, the exhibition develops \u2018wading\u2019 as a metaphor and world-making project that churns through the storied waters of rivers, oceans, marshes, and mangroves.<\/p>\n

From baptism to biblical crossing, as survival strategy to evade colonial forces and slave patrols, and through practices of leisure and respite, the collective and creative acts of wading constitute a source of knowledge, sense of place, and struggle for global Black freedom. Wade<\/em> \u201cholds ground\u201d within the Black geographies of Montgomery County, Maryland amidst the riverways, swamps, and \u201cgeographically difficult terrains\u201d that have shaped histories of fugitivity, place-making, and community formation locally while unearthing parallel and interconnected modes of Black life across the African diaspora (Winston, 2023).<\/p>\n

From elegy to energy source, the selected artworks unearth a multiplicity of offerings, (counter)mappings, and meditations on a \u201cBlack sense of place\u201d (McKittrick, 2011). Featuring works grounded in the material histories, spiritual traditions, and speculative imaginaries of South Africa, Guinea Bissau, Jamaica, and New Orleans, among others, the exhibition asks: what emancipatory futures and intellectual itineraries emerge from the depth of Black aquatic knowledge?<\/p>\n

Artists<\/strong>: Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jamilah Sabur, Dario Mohr, Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva, S\u00f3nia Vaz Borges and Filipa C\u00e9sar, Karabo Likhethe, Sa Whitley, Ada M. Patterson<\/p>\n

Image: S\u00f3nia Vaz Borges and Filipa C\u00e9sar, Mangrove School<\/em> (Still), 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>

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