The In-Between Spaces
An Afrofuturist Retrospective of Black Womanhood
The In-Between Spaces exhibit was curated by Philly-based collage artist, archivist, and memory worker Doriana Diaz. It displays the work of 11 contributing artists, exploring the vessels and tides of the collective aesthetic memory of Blackness through mediums such as film, photography, collage, bookmaking, and more.
My contribution to this exhibit was titled “An Afrofuturist Retrospective of Black Womanhood.” It was inspired by my personal collection of Ebony magazines, this ongoing series of analog collages is an Afrofuturist exploration of the archives of Black womanhood. While attempting to represent some of the joys, pains, successes, sorrows, heartbreaks, and imaginings of Black women over time, I also consider what’s missing from this archive and how this highly influential publication was perhaps, at times, not reflective of who Black women actually were but who they were told they should be.
November 2023 - April 2024 (West Gallery One at the Philadelphia Parkway Central Public Library)
