Solo Exhibition: Transartist Sonia Elizabeth Barrett
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Sonia Elizabeth Barrett
February 2 - March 20, 2020
Villa Romana
Florence, Italy
Opening times: Tuesday to Friday 2pm - 6pm and by appointment
Curated by Justin Randolph Thompsonin collaboration with Black History Month Florence (BHMF) We cordially invite you and your friendsto the opening of the exhibition on Friday, February 7th at 7pm.
Suspended, soft, tender, Clouds (2019) linger in the room ever-present, delicate and overwhelmingly powerful. Full in the weight, the silence of the space they hold collectively is un-ignorable. Hair holds the DNA of a person, of a people. The remains, the cut parts, the fragments are weighty in their evidence. There is lightness and simultaneously a power, a deep burden of proof. In a world on fire Barrett's work consistently holds the space for the violently erased. Rain-filled clouds; a life-giving potential or smoke bearing the weight of the past, Barrett's work, is a black space. A space beyond time, beyond past and present. A collective and individual space that is shape shifting and fluid. (What the hell she doin! Collective)