reflection / abyss / vision / legacy

Inspired by an expedition into the multidimensional realms of Octavia E. Butler’s archives, writer Porsha Olayiwola and visual artist Dara Bayer explore patterns in the development of the individual and the collective. Butler, the first Black woman to win the Hugo Literary Award for science fiction, questions the cycle of self and spirit and Bayer and Olayiwola shape their answers in “reflection /abyss/ vision/ legacy.” The work interweaves themes rooted in ancestry and our world’s future to create eight pieces in conversation. The exhibition is a portal inward and includes an altar space for visitors to imagine and re-imagine possibility.