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Dia[spora] / Δια[σπορά]: A Garden in Dialogue / ένας κήπος σε διάλογο


  • Heartbeat Ink Gallery Karori 13, Athina 105 51, Greece (map)

Womanhood is a precarious and wondrous uncertainty — a seed that thrives in spite of its conditions rooted in a patriarchal landscape and the enduring wound of modern-day colonialism, yet blooming still. In the spirit of Alice Walker's womanist vision that each woman is capable of truly bringing another into the world, this exhibition is a polyphony: 21 Afrofeminist artists in generous conversation, moving towards the shape of themselves. Unfolding in the relational context of Athens, Greece, Nashville, TN, the Athens of the south, and the cultural locations in-between, grounded in the mythology of inheritance as an integral aspect of identity, these artists tend their own gardens, traversing migration and movement, the sustaining architecture of family and community, the tender and turbulent landscape of memory and mental health, all while maintaining a radical insistence of beauty. Through materiality, genealogy, and psychology, they trace the threads of identity across the contemporary geography of their existence, developing new modes of wayfinding — not alone, but together in shared soil.