You Done Taken My Blues and Gone


Ignite Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, You Done Taken My Blues and Gone, as a part of Black History Month.

Reception: Thursday, February 1, 6 - 10 p.m

 
DateThursday, February 1, 2018 - 6:00pm to Sunday, March 11, 2018 - 6:00pm

Cost

Free

Email

emohamoud@ocadu.ca

Website

https://www.baucollective.ca/

Location

165 Augusta Avenue

Black Peoples and Cultures are being stripped of their agency, reduced to repossession or object through commodification. The title, You Done Taken My Blues and Gone, is a quote from Langston Hughes 1940’s poem ‘Note on Commercial Theater’ which speaks on the theft of Black cultures by white dominated markets. The poem, much like this show, remarks on the insidious ways in which Black art forms and material culture are co-opted and divorced from the distinct Black experience that produced them. The show will take place during Black history month; a time of the year in which our history/culture is routinely tokenized and exploited. The exhibition is not a reaction, rather it is a critique on Black History month. You Done Taken My Blues and Gone attempts to disrupt the performative rhetoric that repeats every February about ‘solidarity’ and ‘progress’ and redirect the conversation towards the institutions and groups that support and benefit from antiblackness.

Featuring Works by:

Sydne Barnes Wright 

Tim Hunter

Oreka James

Aaron Jones

Ekow Stone

Destiny Grimm

IGNITE GALLERY
165 Augusta Avenue, Toronto

Exhibition runs: February 1 - March 11 2018
Reception: Thursday, February 1, 6 - 10 p.m.

Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m

 



You Done Taken My Blues and Gone
DateThursday, February 1, 2018 - 6:00pm to Sunday, March 11, 2018 - 6:00pm

Cost

Free

Email

emohamoud@ocadu.ca

Website

https://www.baucollective.ca/

Location

165 Augusta Avenue

Aaron Jones
Thursday, February 1, 2018 - 6:00pm to Sunday, March 11, 2018 - 6:00pm

Black Peoples and Cultures are being stripped of their agency, reduced to repossession or object through commodification. The title, You Done Taken My Blues and Gone, is a quote from Langston Hughes 1940’s poem ‘Note on Commercial Theater’ which speaks on the theft of Black cultures by white dominated markets. The poem, much like this show, remarks on the insidious ways in which Black art forms and material culture are co-opted and divorced from the distinct Black experience that produced them. The show will take place during Black history month; a time of the year in which our history/culture is routinely tokenized and exploited. The exhibition is not a reaction, rather it is a critique on Black History month. You Done Taken My Blues and Gone attempts to disrupt the performative rhetoric that repeats every February about ‘solidarity’ and ‘progress’ and redirect the conversation towards the institutions and groups that support and benefit from antiblackness.

Featuring Works by:

Sydne Barnes Wright 

Tim Hunter

Oreka James

Aaron Jones

Ekow Stone

Destiny Grimm

IGNITE GALLERY
165 Augusta Avenue, Toronto

Exhibition runs: February 1 - March 11 2018
Reception: Thursday, February 1, 6 - 10 p.m.

Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m

 

Venue & Address: 
165 Augusta Avenue
Website: 
https://www.baucollective.ca/
Email: 
emohamoud@ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free
You Done Taken My Blues and Gone
Keywords: 
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