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Public Gallery is pleased to present SPIT, a duo exhibition of painting, sculpture, sound and film by London-based artists Emmanuel Awuni and Divine Southgate-Smith. Conceived together over a year-long research driven collaboration, SPIT explores the untethered rhythms of abstraction, architecture, poetry and song.
As collectors, archivists, composers and artists, Awuni and Southgate-Smith explore diasporic creative expression, sharing in a mutual capacity to guide others towards deeper metaphysical understandings. Their practices converge in celebration of Rhythm, described by philosopher and poet Léopold Senghor as an ordering force that constitutes the essence of African expression. Calling on and responding to objects interned within museum collections, Awuni and Southgate-Smith understand ethnographic materials as not limited to the legitimacy of institutional structures; by recognizing the metaphysical energy from which these materials were created,...More
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Public Gallery is pleased to present SPIT, a duo exhibition of painting, sculpture, sound and film by London-based artists Emmanuel Awuni and Divine Southgate-Smith. Conceived together over a year-long research driven collaboration, SPIT explores the untethered rhythms of abstraction, architecture, poetry and song.
As collectors, archivists, composers and artists, Awuni and Southgate-Smith explore diasporic creative expression, sharing in a mutual capacity to guide others towards deeper metaphysical understandings. Their practices converge in celebration of Rhythm, described by philosopher and poet Léopold Senghor as an ordering force that constitutes the essence of African expression. Calling on and responding to objects interned within museum collections, Awuni and Southgate-Smith understand ethnographic materials as not limited to the legitimacy of institutional structures; by recognizing the metaphysical energy from which these materials were created,...More
