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.
EXHIBITION: Burnt Sugar
September 27, 2024 - November 16, 2024Critical 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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