On Beverly Buchanan: Patricia Ekpo & Ima-Abasi Okon in conversation

Beverly Buchanan. Weathering is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s oeuvre to be presented in Germany. Born in Fuquay, North Carolina, in 1940 and passing in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2015, Buchanan developed a body of work that draws together sculpture, drawing, and environmental art.


A key focus of the exhibition is Buchanan’s interest in placing her works in dialogue with the elements, their purposeful exposure to gradual erosion and eventual decay reflecting a deeper conceptual concern: the cumulative effects of chronic social and economic pressures on the human body.


Ima-Abasi Okon is an artist living between London and Amsterdam. Working across sculpture, video, and sound, her practice engages questions of knowledge and its production. She was commissioned to produce a series of new works in dialogue with Buchanan’s practice alongside the exhibition at Haus am Waldsee.


Patricia Ekpo is Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Art at Cornell University, New York. An interdisciplinary scholar, her work mobilizes Black studies, art history, Black feminist thought, and psychoanalysis to interrogate the role of antiblackness in constituting space, body, gender, psyche, and subjectivity. She has written extensively on Buchanan and is currently completing a manuscript that analyzes the artist’s life and artwork to develop a sense of blackness as a form of lived abstraction.

 

The exhibition is open until 6 pm – your ticket to the event allows you to visit the Beverly Buchanan exhibition before the talk begins.


The café is open throughout the event.


Please note that the garden hall will be closed from 5 pm due to installing the talk.