The Davis Museum's Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons, curated by Amanda Gilvin, was an important exhibition that gave viewers an insight into the multifaceted yet interconnected aspects of Tuggar's practice, which not only includes the digital montages for which the artist is most well known, but also sculpture, video, and installation. Accompanied by a catalogue of the same name, with contributions by Gilvin, Delinda Collier, Nicole R. Fleetwood, Jennifer Bajorek, and an interview with the artist, this publication is the first monograph on Tuggar's practice. The publication is long overdue, as evidenced by each contributor's call to consider the artist's work beyond the lens of Afrofuturism, a designation the artist herself cautions against. Indeed, once you descended the staircase to Home's Horizons exhibition space and entered into Tuggar's world, inhabited predominantly by women who labor and entertain through the mediation of various technologies, you soon realized that it did not...
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May 03 2021
Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons
Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons
curated by Amanda
Gilvin
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College
September 13-December 15
, 2019
Rebecca Wolff
Rebecca Wolff
rebecca wolff is a PhD candidate in African art at UCLA, currently writing her dissertation on art related to the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70). [email protected]
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Rebecca Wolff
rebecca wolff is a PhD candidate in African art at UCLA, currently writing her dissertation on art related to the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70). [email protected]
Online ISSN: 1937-2108
Print ISSN: 0001-9933
© 2021 by the Regents of the University of California
2021
Regents of the University of California
African Arts (2021) 54 (2): 90–93.
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Rebecca Wolff; Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons. African Arts 2021; 54 (2): 90–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00585
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