For the first time, AKAA is extending an invitation to a guest curator for our landmark monumental installation, a unique collaboration with Dr. Fahamu Pecou, Artist and Founder of ADAMA (African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta).
Dr. Fahamu Pecou, will present Limin/en an installation by Cosmo Whyte, an artist born and raised in Jamaica, who lives and works in Los Angeles. His work will be presented at the heart of the fair.
Cosmo Whyte is represented by Galerie Anat Egbi in Los Angeles.
Dr. Fahamu Pecou is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose works combine observations on Hip-Hop, fine art, and popular culture, to address concerns around contemporary representations of Black men.
Through paintings, performance art, and academic work, Dr. Pecou confronts the performance of Black masculinity and Black identity, challenging and expanding the reading, performance, and expressions of Blackness.
Cosmo Whyte, born in 1982 in Jamaica, employs drawing, sculpture, and photography to explore the intersections of race, nationalism, and displacement. His large scale drawings pose the celebratory body of Jamaican and diasporic communities in states of jubilation. His figures, adorned with gold leaf and black glitter, defy their colonial past, tearing it from their bodies through unbridled dance.
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