pt. 2: Oakland is pleased to present Elements Of..., a group exhibition by Angela Hennessy and Christopher Martin, curated by Adrian Octavius Walker. The works in this show contend with universal experiences - life, death, love, belonging - mediated through Blackness; as a personal and lived experience, as a part of an ancestral lineage, and as a historical construction. Hennessy fuses European and African mourning rituals using hair. Martin subverts traditional tattoo flash images to simultaneously satirize and interrogate slavery, segregation, and white supremacy. Read more after the jump!
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