Adama Delphine Fawundu in "Gathering Across Waters: Adama Delphine Fawundu at UMFA"

In the latest iteration of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ salt series, Brooklyn-based artist Adama Delphine Fawundu continues the program’s mission of bringing emerging voices in contemporary art to Utah. Known for her work in video and photography as well as layered textile assemblages, Fawundu weaves together memory, ancestry, and ritual to explore how identity flows across generations and geographies. She calls her process kpoto patchwok, referring to the Mende word for gathering fruits and nuts for communal nourishment (kpoto) and the Krio word for piecing together textiles (patchwok). Reflecting this spirit of gathering and interconnection, the exhibition presents her works in dialogue with pieces she has selected from the museum’s African art collection.