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21 Aug 2025 (2 min) read
A Deep Wound by Usha Seejarim is featured in this group exhibition (17 Aug - 19 Oct), whose title - meaning "black salt" - references a 1960 volume of poetry by the Martinique-born poet and postcolonial thinker Édouard Glissant.
Inspired by Glissant's philosophical and theoretical approaches to multiculturalism, the exhibition presents international contemporary art that explores Black subjectivity – understood as an expression of identification, self-location, and aesthetic agency.
Other artists featured are Valerie Asiimwe Amani, Lisa Marie Asubonteng, Sonia E. Barrett, Syowia Kyambi, Monica de Miranda, Nastio Mosquito, Harold Offeh, Ngozi Ajah Schommers and Lerato Shadi.
According to the curators: "The focus is a critical examination of the paternalistic over-identification with Black people in Western countries. The exhibition aims to aesthetically reverse these asymmetries through self-empowerment and emancipation. The focus is on the perspectives of Black artists whose lives, works, and influences are closely connected to their relationships with Europe. With their metaphorical, sensual, and media-diverse artworks, they open up a fascinating dialogue without clichéd identity attributions."
The exhibition is curated by Dr. Alejandro Perdomo Daniels, director of the Villingen-Schwenningen Municipal Gallery, and accompanied by a comprehensive publication and a diverse programme of events. It was previously presented at Villingen-Schwenningen from March to June of this year.
