‘Body Vessel Clay’ Offers a Material Portal to the Ancestral Plane
The Ford Foundation Gallery has gathered the work of three generations of groundbreaking Black women artists.
The ancestral African tradition to which I belong tells me that clay is a portal. It breathes and it remembers.
Dr. Jareh Das, curator of “Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art” at the Ford Foundation Gallery, presents a masterclass in curatorial sightline.
The presentation of this work is a black cube, an intentional decomposition of the colonial “white cube gallery aesthetic.”
- Artist Ladi Kwali’s large vessels are on display.
- Photographs of her making the work and archival material related to her practice are also showcased.
Author's summary: Exploring Black women's art and ceramics.
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