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#Akea Brionne
#memory
#portraits
#surreal
#tapestry
#textiles
Woven into Akea Brionne’s glimmery Afro-surrealist tapestries is an impulse towards sustainability. With a level within the topic and a follow rooted in analysis, the Detroit-based artist started contemplating how you can decrease waste whereas creating images. Curbing consumption grew to become a grounding precept that goes past materials extra, extending to “concepts, conceptions, ideas, and methods of being,” she tells Colossal.
Engaged on digital jacquard weavings, Brionne stitches rhinestones to clothes, tiled flooring, and different particulars, including a component of decadence to every tapestry. Most of the portraits proven right here had been on view just lately at Lyles & King in New York for Brionne’s solo present, Roses Develop in Southern Soil, and examine “her grandfather’s journey between Mississippi and New Mexico within the Nineteen Seventies on the tail finish of The Nice Migration.” She is within the lingering results of colonialism and the African Diaspora, significantly because it pertains to reminiscence and the way tales are handed from one era to the following.
Whether or not targeted on a single nameless topic or a small group in entrance of expansive our bodies of water, the works are infused with an eerie sense of the uncanny, subtly unsettling the acquainted. “I additionally take into consideration extra when it comes to seeing a considerable amount of representations of Blackness that felt restrictive, so I attempt to fight that and supply some variety,” the artist provides.
Brionne’s work can be on view with Lyles & King at EXPO CHICAGO this April and in a bunch exhibition MassArt Art Museum opening in June. Keep up to date together with her work on Instagram.
#Akea Brionne
#memory
#portraits
#surreal
#tapestry
#textiles
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