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Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA): Opening Reception: Black@Intersection: Contemporary Black Voices in Art

The Breadth and Brilliance of Black Humanity: Black@Intersection: Black Voices in Contemporary Art
Visual Art Review by Josh Bottoms, November 19, 2021

( Fri., Nov. 19, 2021 )

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), 750 Marguerite Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27106

Program

Black@Intersection will feature Black and African Diasporic artists from North Carolina and beyond. The artists simultaneously exemplify and defy––yet continue to redefine the perceived norms around concepts of Blackness as we see it in our world. They resist the nullifying commodification of blackness into a type of monolith and do so by creating works that reify the world on their own terms.

After evaluating numerous exceptional applications, SECCA selected Duane Cyrus for the guest curator position based on his exhibition proposal for Black@Intersection: Contemporary Black Voices in Art. The proposed exhibition draws on Cyrus' extensive experience in the performing arts while incorporating other artistic disciplines including photography, film, and sculpture.