Image by Ebere Agwuncha
“Crossings,” a duo exhibition at the Chicago Artists Coalition featuring new works by Developmental Director of the Invisible Institute Anwulika Anigbo, and Farah Salem, curated by Yi Cao. The exhibition will be on view from April 15 - May 26, 2022.
Historically, human migrations across the Atlantic Ocean, Sahara Desert, and Red Sea, spurred by colonization and capitalism, have had catastrophic consequences. In their respective works, Anigbo and Salem invoke personal experiences and reference the sacred and mythical West African and Afro-Arab worlds, to illuminate cultural hybridity and transformation.
Informed by Chinua Achebe’s African Trilogy and Wole Soyinka’s poetry, Anigbo asks: what is the purpose of collecting memory outside of proving our legitimacy in a battle to fabricate a truth viewed as absolute?