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100 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
"Employing various sculptural techniques, Lewis creates colorful, totemic forms that suggest mythical territories beyond our own. At the gallery, the artist will present a group of six new sculptures created from salvaged textiles and other found materials in a polygonal installation that will serve as a stage for an inaudible conversation. The monumental forms -- which range from seven to over thirteen feet tall -- will uphold a corporeal arena for those who move between temporal and heavenly realms. Following her presentation Divine Giants Tribunal at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Lewis continues to create anthropomorphic forms inspired by those in Yoruban mask dramas -- ones which are spiritually activated by the wearer and the audience, and, by extension, their community. In creating the masks, Lewis develops their identities and narratives in an intermediary world that implicates our ancestral pasts, spiritual and cultural similitudes, and multiplanar existences. Deriving concepts from eschatology, Vox Populi, Vox Dei puts forth a joyful declaration of being: taking the form of a stage on which to enact and actuate this ethereal sphere, the installation employs the apocalypse not as a vehicle for destruction but rather as a platform for transformation"--
Curator's note: the ghost / Ebony L. Haynes -- What the people are like: voices from without / Tiana Reid -- Spring to the 1st magnitude / Yves B. Golden -- Plates.
Catalog of the exhibition held at 52 Walker, New York, New York, October 28, 2022-January 7, 2023.
Tau Lewis (born 1993 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian artist working in a variety of mediums including hand-sewn, carved and assemblage pieces.
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