Isacholo and Cisakulo formed part of Poswa’s solo exhibition Indyebo yakwaNtu (Black Bounty), which marked the opening of Southern Guild’s Los Angeles gallery in February 2024. Reaching heights of over 8 feet tall, the works are her most ambitious and technically demanding to date. The series celebrates traditions of self-adornment from across the African continent, transforming items of jewellery, beadwork, hair combs and pins into monumental bronze crests perched atop ceramic forms.

Confronting the legacies of fetishism and ethnography, Between Distance and Desire takes a speculative rather than historicist approach. By engaging with these complex histories, its artistic and curatorial interventions utilise modes of play and fantasy to offer alternative narratives about the past, present, and future of Black aesthetics.

Other participating artists include Edson Chagas, Kim Dacres, vanessa german, Eblin Grueso, Emmanuel Massillon, Robert Pruitt, and Nyugen E. Smith. The exhibition also features objects from The Soloviev Foundation collection made by the Bamana, Baule, Dan, Djimini, Ekoi, Fang, Guro, Kota, Lega, Luba, Songye, and We-Wobe peoples.

The gallery is located on the ground floor of the Soloviev Group’s iconic 9 West 57th Street office tower in Midtown Manhattan.

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