48″x36″; mixed media collage (fine art digital print, silk flower petals, acrylic, glitter
glue, rhinestones) on canvas; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Through the Veil
at the Eaton Hotel DC in Washington, DC USA
18 September-12 December 2025
Rashad Ali Muhammad explores the liminal spaces between the physical and spiritual worlds, tracing how ancestral knowledge endures and transforms across time and geography. He invites viewers to consider what it means to reconnect with “lost” African spiritual practices that manifest in African American experiences and are reshaped by displacement, memory, and creativity. Muhammad’s mixed media collages, sculptural masks, and immersive installation evoke the unseen energies that flow between realms. Inspired by travels to West Africa and a voodoo ceremony witnessed in the floating village of Ganvié, Benin, the work interprets ritual as a portal for connection, healing, and empowerment.
30″x24″; mixed media collage (fine art digital print, silk flower petals, acrylic, glitter
glue, reclaimed jewelry) on canvas; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Like Hoodoo, which emerged from blending West and Central African spiritual systems with Indigenous American knowledge and European folk magic, Muhammad’s practice reimagines ancestral technologies through a contemporary lens. Ultimately, “Through the Veil: Currents of the Unseen” becomes both altar and portal, a space for ancestral reverence and imaginative spiritual reactivation. A new lineage has begun!
(text adapted from material provided by the artist)
INFORMATION
Eaton Hotel DC
1201 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20005 USA
(202) 289-7600
Hours:
The exhibition is available at all times.