GALLERY OPENING RECEPTION - 8/19

Honfleur Gallery, 1231 Good Hope Rd SE
Vivid Solutions Gallery, 1235 Good Hope Rd SE (inside Anacostia Arts Center)

New shows come to the galleries! A magical realism portrait series by French-Guianese photographer Mirtho Linguet and Black Magic: AfroPasts/AfroFutures, a group exhibition called curated by Howard alum Niama Sandy Safia. 5 - 8 pm. FREE.

Exhibition: August 18 – October 7, 2017
Opening Reception: August 19, 5 – 8 pm
Artist Talk: August 23, 7 pm

Inspired by the 1973 poem: Limbé by Léon-Gontran Damas, French Guianese creative Mirtho Linguet presents a visually impactful series of images.

“Give me back my black dolls

so they dispelthe eternal image

the hallucinatory image

of stacked large assed puppets

whose miserable mercy

the wind carries to the nose”.

by Léon-Gontran Damas 

In the Black Dolls series, Mirtho Linguet manifests scenarios in a form of question to visualize the lived experiences of those so called non-white people all over the world and in, French Guiana, who live under the basic universal situation known as Racism, which is the System of White Supremacy. These pictures question all of us:  what is Racism? And how does it work? 

Black Dolls Project is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and The French Embassy of United States.