Movement & Memory

Movement & Memory is an exhibition dedicated to the work of Sankofa. The works on display are a series of figurative drawings and digital paintings, collages, and immersive experiences, intended to conjure African ancestral memory. Sankofa is a term that communicates the cyclical nature of time, relating one’s existence to the past, present, and future. In-keeping with this tradition, these works conjure the past into the present and future, and vice versa.

This series was inspired by years of studying Africana scholarship, indigenous African spirituality, and Afrofuturism. The exhibition features a series of vibrantly colored, layered drawings and prints depicting African people and ritual masks that are evocative of African spirituality, alongside a series of achromatic portraits that focus on the lived reality of African people. In the centerpiece of the exhibition, Congo Square VR, viewers are transported to the spirit realm, traversing a circular procession around symbolic representations of the Creator and the ancestors who guard and protect the descendents of the African diaspora.