{"id":11684,"date":"2021-10-11T17:33:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T21:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=11684"},"modified":"2021-10-30T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T16:53:27","slug":"atlantica-the-gilda-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/atlantica-the-gilda-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantica, The Gilda Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Whole Me?!<\/em> by April Bey
110″x72″; acrylic paint, watercolor, and hand-sewn, digitally woven, and printed crown; 2021. Courtesy of the artist and GAVLAK Los Angeles and Palm Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April Bey: Atlantica, The Gilda Region<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, California, USA
26 May 2021-17 January 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In “Atlantica, The Gilda Region”,<\/em> April Bey\u2019s first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles, the Bahamian-American interdisciplinary artist presents an immersive installation that taps into Black Americans\u2019 historical embrace of space travel and extraterrestrial visioning\u2014a cultural movement dating back to the late 1960s and later termed Afrofuturism. Through this Afrofuturist lens, Bey reflects on subjects such as queerness, feminism, and internet culture in vibrant tableaux that combine living plants, video, music, photography, and oversized mixed-media paintings and textiles. The artist positions herself as an alien from the planet Atlantica, while her mission on Earth is to observe and report as an undercover agent. This imagined world and her general interest in storytelling come from her father, who would tell her childhood tales using alien narratives to illustrate how Black people were othered in the United States and The Bahamas. In contrast to the racial oppression and exploitation rampant on Earth, Atlantica offers a beautiful diasporic world in which Black people thrive and flourish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enjoyment<\/em> by April Bey
110″x72″; water-based latex paint, watercolor, hand-sewn fabric, glitter, and sequins; 2021. Courtesy of the artist and GAVLAK Los Angeles and Palm Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition curator is Mar Hollingsworth, Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Atlantica, The Gilda Region” (installation view) by April Bey
Courtesy of the artist and the California African American Museum. Photo by Elon Schoenholz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(text adapted from the museum’s press materials)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLLAGE ON VIEW April Bey: Atlantica, The Gilda Region at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, California, USA 26 May 2021-17 January 2022 In “Atlantica, The Gilda Region”, April Bey\u2019s first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles, the Bahamian-American interdisciplinary…<\/p>\n

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