Installation view, Saya Woolfalk: Expedition to the ChimaCloud, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, March 1–September 1, 2019. Courtesy Nelson-Atkins Digital Production & Preservation. Photo: Dana Anderson.
Museum of Arts and Design
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New York, NY 10019
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...Woolfalk’s work represents one of the earliest and most influential examples of “world-building” in contemporary art; her ambitious fictional narrative of an imagined race of women known as “Empathics” runs throughout her entire oeuvre. The Empathics’ story is told through their own distinctive imagery, symbolism, and folklore, which reflect the artist’s investigations of African, African American, Japanese, European, and Brazilian art, craft, and storytelling…"
