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A companion to Tau Lewis’s 2022 exhibition Vox Populi, Vox Dei, a monograph by the identical title contextualizes and celebrates the artist’s enigmatic, post-apocalyptic imaginative and prescient. Lewis (previously) is thought for repurposing textiles into daring works evocative of Yoruban masks and Greek and Roman theatrical traditions. The title interprets to “the voice of the folks is the voice of god,” a phrase the artist makes use of to invoke a way of neighborhood and spirituality, two tenets of her imagined world.
Together with the totemic, wall-based works included within the Vox Populi, Vox Dei exhibition at 52 Walker, the e-book additionally options the freestanding varieties proven right here. Equally constructed with patchworks and layers of textiles, the works reference the “materials DNA” Lewis is drawn to, as she connects the earlier makes use of of the materials themselves to the figures that inhabit her universe. Paired with writings by Ebony L. Haynes, Tiana Reid, and Yves B. Golden, the quantity incorporates photographs, preliminary sketches, and teams of coloration swatches that supply perception into the origins and ancestries of Lewis’ salvaged future.
Seize your copy of Clarion Vol. 5: Tau Lewis: Vox Populi, Vox Dei from 52 Walker.
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