スミソニアン博物館のインスタグラム(smithsonian) - 4月29日 05時21分

In the 1990s, a Detroit-based techno duo called Drexciya (made up of James Stinson and Gerald Donald) imagined an underwater kingdom populated by the children of pregnant women who had been thrown overboard or jumped voluntarily into the ocean during the transatlantic slave trade.

Inspired by Drexciya’s founding myth, artist Ayana V. Jackson has created an immersive, feminist and sacred aquatopia where African water spirits from Senegal to South Africa both midwife and protect the Drexciyans.

Jackson uses her own body in her artworks, asking people to reckon with the brutal history that cast these humans to the sea while simultaneously envisioning a world of powerful, resilient women. She combines her sociologist’s background with in-depth research into the history of photography, African religions, fashion history and cutting-edge Afrofuturist philosophy.

This 2020 image, "It Is Only When You Lose Your Mother That She Becomes a Myth," is among the photographs, videos, animations and costumes included in a new exhibition opening April 29 at @smithsonian_africanart. You can see “From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson” through April of next year.

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