Emerson Dorsch presents Onajide Shabaka in Alosúgbe: a journey across time

Friday, May 10th from 6-9pm Emerson Dorsch presents the opening reception for Onajide Shabaka in Alosúgbe, a journey across time. In Onajide Shabaka’s debut exhibition at Emerson Dorsch, Shabaka explores biology and ethnobotany in the form of recent photography, works on paper and sculpture. These media serve as material for understanding the migrations of both humans and plants during the Atlantic colonial slave era to the present. This exhibition derives from several years of ongoing research finding connections between colonial sites in the Low Country (Georgia & South Carolina), the Caribbean archipelago and Suriname. This exhibition will be on view through June 22, 2019.

Image: Onajide Shabaka, Fear assuaged over time by medicine, 2017, Mixed media collage on paper, 12 x 18 inches.