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Jamal Cyrus: Currents & Currencies

Past exhibition
November 8, 2019 - January 11, 2020
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Jamal Cyrus, Sargassum, 2019
Jamal Cyrus, Sargassum, 2019
Jamal Cyrus, Sargassum, 2019
Jamal Cyrus, Sargassum, 2019
Jamal Cyrus, Sargassum, 2019

Jamal Cyrus

Sargassum, 2019
Sargassum, tabby concrete, water, tempera paint, sea salt, chalk
51 x 51 x 6 in (129.5 x 129.5 x 15.2 cm)
JCY 87
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'Sargassum' is a small sculpture utilizing a shaped sargassum weed, tabby concrete, water, tempera paint and salt. Cyrus uses Sargassum-seaweed that originates from the Sargasso Sea, a region of the...
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"Sargassum" is a small sculpture utilizing a shaped sargassum weed, tabby concrete, water, tempera paint and salt. Cyrus uses Sargassum-seaweed that originates from the Sargasso Sea, a region of the northern Atlantic bounded by four different ocean currents-as a means of mapping and exploring the African diaspora and transatlantic exchange of currents and currencies between Africa and the West. Cyrus has long been drawn to Sargassum as a material because of its drying stages, as it changes from green to a reddish-purple to dark brown. Viewing the work as a sort of reflection pond, Cyrus also sees within the work the journey across the Atlantic Ocean as the gestational period before the birth of black cultures within the new world, an idea developed by the cultural theorist Paul Gilroy, and one that has greatly influenced the artist.

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Provenance

From the artist's studio

Exhibitions

A New Landscape / A Possible Horizon, Texas Biennial 2021, co organized by Ryan N Dennis and Evan Garza, Ruby City, San Antonio, TX , September 1 - January 31, 2022

Jamal Cyrus: Currents and Currencies, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, November 8, 2019-January 11, 2020

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