Between the Snakes

Between the Snakes is an exhibition that looks at the different codices of Black folk magic and its widespread international iterations that continue to challenge Eurocentric modernist binaries. The exhibition features works by international and regional artists with varying practices including painting, installation, sculpture, and textile work. The exhibition seeks to counter existing modes of knowledge production and knowledge politics by drawing upon the history and current practices embedded in alternative forms of understanding, including but not limited to voodoo and hoodoo.

Between the Snakes pays homage to the research of Alabama’s Zora Neale Hurston and the diverse spiritual practices of the American South while acknowledging the contemporary and international iterations, interpretations, and manifestations of these beliefs by all those who refuse to abide by the norms defended by white male hegemony and driven by the political, religious, and economic interests of the patriarchy. The show urges us to honor non-empirical forms of knowledge and resist the singular, white, evangelical perspective in favor of a more hybrid and complex reading of Southern American history that is desperately needed.

Where

Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL

When

Fall 2022

Sponsors

Alabama Contemporary Art Center