Fawundu, Adama Delphine | Critical Distance Centre for Curators

Adama Delphine Fawundu

Adama Delphine Fawundu is an artist born in Brooklyn, NY, the ancestral space of the Lenni-Lanape. She is a descendant of the Mende, Krim, Bamileke, and Bubi peoples, and her distinct visual language centers indigenization and the power in ancestral knowledge and memory through photography, printmaking, video, sound, and assemblage. Fawundu is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University and co-publisher of the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and her works are in the collections at the Newark Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Portland Museum of Art, amongst other private and public collections.

Links

Adama Delphine Fawundu’s website

EXHIBITION: Burnt Sugar

September 27, 2024 - November 16, 2024

Critical Distance is pleased to present Burnt Sugar, curated by noted author francesca ekwuyasi and featuring new and recent works by Adama Delphine Fawundu, Shaya Ishaq, Bushra Junaid, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, and Oluseye. Drawing upon the artists’ longstanding engagement with themes of migration, identity, Blackness, and diaspora, Burnt Sugar explores the inextricable connections between labour, extraction and sugar production including the transatlantic slave trade and its afterlives.

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Gallery

A woman with dark brown skin is shown from the hips up standing on a beach in front of rolling ocean waves. She wears a white bodysuit with bloused sleeves, her hands placed over heart and abdomen, and her face is obscured by a covering beaded in cowrie shells.

[A close-up of a hanging mixed media artwork with stitched sections of blue cyanotypes, black and white photo negatives, and raffia.

A hanging, mixed media artwork with vertically suspended fabric strips featuring blue cyanotypes, black and white images, abstract patterns, and textures.

Close-up of a mixed-media art laying on a wooden floor, featuring layered blue fabric and black-and-white transparencies with photographic prints, text, and abstract patterns.

A billboard outside a brick building shows a photographic self portrait of the artist, a black woman dressed in white with a headpiece made from shells, standing on a beach with the ocean in the background.