Ayana V. Jackson
Adelita: I would Follow her by Ground and Sea, 2023
Archival pigment print on German etching paper
47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in
120 x 120 cm
120 x 120 cm
Edition of 8 plus 3 artist's proofs
Series: You forgot to see me coming
Suspended mid-leap, Adelita hovers between gravity and glory. Jackson revives the memory of mestiza warriors with grace that is both speculative and urgent. Her act of re-staging is a refusal...
Suspended mid-leap, Adelita hovers between gravity and glory. Jackson revives the memory of mestiza warriors with grace that is both speculative and urgent. Her act of re-staging is a refusal towards being fixed in stereotype, or forgotten in the footnotes of revolution. Shown in Gallery Two: Colonialism And The Forgetting Of Afro Heritage at PhotoEspana in Nosce Te Ipsum: Membrum Fantasma.
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