Those who died return again again human
April 4-13
Rubenstein Arts Center
Gallery 235
Multimedia Installation
Memorial Service: An Artist Talk, April 7, 5:00pm
Those who died return again again human documents a return in search of traces of ghosts. We journey from the Gulf of Guinea to the Lowcountry, tracing along the shores where the two coasts intersect, overlap, and overflow. In an interrogation of space, this exhibition engages with the ghosts of history to explore spaces of spiritual and religious practice in how they are simultaneously repressive and liberating. These places are haunted by their histories of violence, but through this project, practices of restraint and the spiritual hybridity across the African diaspora are considered forms of resistance. How do we represent that which we have not witnessed?
Artist Biography
Ama Kyereme uses visual and time-based media to create work that interrogates the relationship between place, identity, and culture as it relates to Black experiences particularly within the context of the African diaspora. She is concerned with Black bodies in public, and their representation in media. Issues of the past and future, memory, and cultural preservation are central to her practice.
Kyereme incorporates visual culture by deploying ethnographic research methods in the archive, investigating the dynamics between research and art. For Kyereme, archival practice is a form of resistance. This includes a focus on public history and how lived experience and memory are shaped and transformed through the collection and dissemination in the archive. Her work examines how culture is transmitted, reproduced, transformed and appropriated across time and place.
