“Ancestral Awakenings,” a new installation of photography by Adama Delphine Fawundu is now on view at MTA's Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr (2,3,4,5,B,D,N,Q,R, LIRR). Inspired by indigenous cosmologies that evoke the interconnected relationship between humans, nature, and the universe, Adama Delphine Fawundu creates new languages, new ideas, and new worldviews through her interdisciplinary practice.
The photographs on view were captured between 2016 and 2024 in places with large African diasporic communities, including Miami, Savannah, the Bahamas, Sierra Leone, Colombia, Cuba, and Brooklyn. The most recent of these were created at Lefferts Historic House as Prospect Park Alliance’s inaugural artist-in-residence in 2024.
Her grandmother’s tie-dye and batik cotton textiles, which appear in the photographs, situate Fawundu’s own body as a conduit for spirits both ancestral and futuristic in the perpetual circle of time.
The exhibition was generously sponsored by Color Center and DotWorks with installation support by OUTFRONT Media.
