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Alayna N. Pernell, With Care to Ms. Maudelle Bass Weston, 2020, archival inkjet print, 10 x 10 inches.

Alayna N. Pernelll: Our Mothers' Gardens

When: Wednesdays-Fridays, 12-5 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Continues through May 6 2023

Our Mothers’ Gardens is a series uncovering repressed images of Black women held in photographic collections at the Art Institute of Chicago. The images often depict exploitation and violence towards Black women, whether overt or obscured. With these images, Pernell has excavated, re-photographed, re-captioned and re-contextualized the original works to show them in a different light with new meaning. Pernell draws attention to how, historically, Black identity has been erased and how this impacts the mental well-being of Black Americans. Alayna N. Pernell is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator from Heflin, Alabama. Sponsored by Barbara & Arthur McDonnell.

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