BLACK MAGIC

Roger Bonair-Agard - Arnold Butler - Delphine Fawundu - Soraya Jean Louis-McElroy - Charles Jean-Pierre - OddKINCreate - DJ Underdog - Curated by Niama Safia Sandy  

The work in the exhibition travels through the gaze of our shared past through historiographic symbols as affixed together by OddKinCreate and Charles Jean-Pierre, through the backwoods in the shadows of a plantation in Roanoke, Virginia through Delphine Fawundu's lens, to galactic landscapes as yet uncharted in the futuristic edits by Underdog. Putting the exhibition into context, Curator Niama Safia Sandy, explained,

"Magical realism is not merely a literary genre, but instead a very real actuality for we - the black and brown people of this earth. We smuggle the spiritual into every waking moment just as Afro-Futurism smuggles the intellectual and the axé (after Paul Carter Harrison and Sandra Jackson-Dumont) - the beauty and the power of our multitudinous voices - into the every day."

Artist talk and other programming set for Sunday, May 15.