The beads suspended in Lhola Amira's exhibit, 'Facing the Future,' are like threads that connect the experiences of Black and Brown people, from the U.S. to Amira's native South Africa and around the world.
Lhola Amira's exhibit at the de Young museum, "Facing the Future," tells the stories and experiences of Black and Brown people around the world.The beads suspended in Lhola Amira's exhibit, "Facing the Future," are like threads that connect the experiences of Black and Brown people, from the U.S. to Amira's native South Africa and around the world.
"Who have had to cross the ocean, and unwillingly, who have had to cross the ocean, because of slavery because of colonial conquest, and have made life wherever they landed," Amira explains. Amira refers to the exhibit at San Francisco's de Young Museum as a constellation rather than an installation. The haunting music and vocals that resonate in the background invoke pain, spirituality and ultimately healing. The human struggle mirrored in a poem by Lucille Clifton hanging among the beads."And we have Lucille Clifton's poem as part of the work.
Amira's constellation is juxtaposed around the museum's permanent collection of African art and is meant to interact with it. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which includes the de Young and the Legion of Honor have been working to diversify their exhibitions. Natasha Becker was recently brought on to help make that happen. She's is the museums first African art curator and like Lhola Amira, a native of South Africa.
"I think that my you know, my appointment obviously coincided with this moment of racial reckoning within the United States and within museums as well. And really thinking through how museums can open up spaces for people of color, and bring their unique perspectives to the work that they do," says Becker.
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