Exhibition
In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens
2 Feb 2017 – 4 Feb 2017
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 07:00 – 23:00
- Friday
- 07:00 – 23:00
- Saturday
- 07:00 – 23:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 133 Copeland Road
- London
- SE15 3SN
- United Kingdom
A group exhibition of works by Yarli Allison, Isabel Alsina-Reynolds, Rhine Bernardino, Will Ballantyne-Reid & Fionnuala Kennedy, Rosa Johan Uddoh, Tess Rees, Ayesha Tan-Jones and Dominique White.
About
Taking its title from Alice Walker’s 1983 essay of the same name, the exhibition explores the ways in which Walker’s Womxnist prose can facilitate a dialogue between direct and indirect interpretations of inherited experiences.
Walker’s performative writing considers the prose of Phillis Wheatley, a slave who is widely recognised as the first African American writer, male or female. Walker decides that Wheatley’s spark must’ve been the seed of a flower handed to her by her mother; an offering sown more often than not anonymously, that they themselves were never able to see. She recognises her foremother’s creativity and ultimately, the essay comes to situate itself as a manifesto that implores womxn, particularly womxn of colour, to make the same discovery.
