Shoshana Wayne presents Moments of Being featuring the work of Anina Major. Major engages with Bahamian plaiting as a contemporary practice and considers how states of awareness emerge through the body. African traditions and European influences learned from interrupted rituals, displaced materials, and symbols carried forward without full archival continuity.
This manifests into sculpture and performance, resulting in a unique body of work composed of diverse forms, that are both autobiographical and fantastical. Within the woven layers rests the significance of preserving cultural memory while simultaneously embodying the complexity of identity. Major’s material of choice, clay, embodies a desire for beauty and a need to commemorate. A seemingly appropriate response to everything that is decaying and growing, that may seem to be destroyed but could never be erased.
Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 24, 4-6pm
Gallery hours:
Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm