Ahmed Abdalla
Ambreen Butt
Lalla Assia Essaydi
Coco Fusco
Odili Donald Odita
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Kehinde Wiley

Fresh Produce features
Terence Hamonds

Visualizing Diaspora / Constructing Self
Curated by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Cheryl Finley

Nov. 6 - Dec 31 2004
Opening: Nov. 12 5-8pm

Artist Talk: Friday Nov. 12 6pm

In conjunction with "Bridging the Gaps" First Conference on African American Art. W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Visualizing Diaspora/ Constructing Self brings together the work of a group of emerging and established artists whose work introduces provocative and challenging questions beyond the stereotypical definitions of identity and selfhood, instead it proposes vantage points from where to discuss the contradictions and paradoxes of negotiating differences. It illuminates the Quixotic urban chivalries of racially inscribed bodies navigating in the postindustrial landscape in America and elsewhere. This exhibition attempts to further open the investigation on definitions of nationhood and locality in the digital age, postcolonial times, and in preemptive behavior.

Visualizing Diaspora/Constructing Self offers a complex juxtaposition of methodologies and approximations to the question of belonging geographically and economically, understanding historical and philosophical implications, and ultimately tolerance and communication. The show does so with a rich and rigorous group of work, extending from painting, drawing, video, installation, and photography to sculpture.