The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, United States
07 Feb 2015 - 26 Jun 2015
Venturing Out of the Heart of Darkness examines the long-standing impact of colonialism on prevailing societal attitudes that define black culture in America and in the world.
It also explores how the Empire has defined and thereby influenced the development of economic, linguistic, mythological and psychological systems and ideologies that inform contemporary notions of blackness. The exhibition will include works by national and international artists representative of the African Diaspora. Exhibition curated by Rehema C. Barber
With Leonardo Benzant, Zoe Charlton, Andrea Chung, Willie Cole, Bethany Collins, Nathaniel Donnett, Ken Gonzales-Day, Heather Hart and André D. Singleton, Sean M. Johnson, JC Lenochan, Shaun Leonardo, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Jason Patterson, Yinka Shonibare, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Renee Stout, Wilmer Wilson IV, Saya Woolfalk
