Black History Month is a time for stories of triumph over injustice, as well as for remembrance. In Remains, a solo show by Adebunmi Gbadebo at Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem, collective memory and generational trauma take on new depths. Among the rich and varied mixed media works on view, it is the charred pottery, sprouting with human hair, that blurs the line between the Black physical form and its objectification, chillingly evoking a period of enslavement and dehumanization.
Gbadebo, born in 1992, literally dug deep into the land where her ancestors suffered and are buried, True Blue plantation in Fort Motte, South Carolina, named for the
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