Celebrate the opening of "Flesh of the Forest".
4757 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042.
Join us for an opening reception for the exhibition Flesh of the Forest.
Flesh of the Forest brings together nine contemporary artists from the African diaspora whose work engages with the forest as a rich, multilayered site of history, memory, sensation, and feeling. Through sculpture, painting, film, and installation, the forest emerges as both a surreal landscape and a reservoir of ancestral knowledge where the visible and invisible coexist. In this exhibition, danger, whimsy, enchantment, vulnerability, abundance, and darkness precipitate alternate ways of seeing, hearing, being, and knowing that are at once historical, speculative, and ecological. The works on view also imagine new forms of human and nonhuman interaction that dispense with exploitative entanglements between empire and land.
This exhibition is curated by Tiffany E. Barber, Assistant Professor of African American Art in the Department of Art History at UCLA.
A hosted bar and light bites will be provided.
Image: Sydney Cain, I Am Everywhere (Sassafras), 2021
