Rooted in time

Rooted in Time: Africa’s Past, Present & Future explored the temporal and spatial notions of Transatlantic African identity, heritage, culture, and history. This exhibition brings together artists of African descent working across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and mixed-media works to challenge linear understandings of time and identity shaped by colonial frameworks.
These artists engage the cyclical nature of cultural inheritance foregrounding how time, space, memory, and embodied knowledge shape evolving forms of oral history, storytelling traditions, ancestral practices, spiritual systems, material.

Rooted in Time: Africa’s Past, Present & Future invited us to reflect, reckon, and re-envision; to activate our collective imagination toward liberated and self determined futures. How do we carry our past forward? How is culture reshaped in motion? And what futures become possible when we root ourselves fully in the remembrance of who we are?

The exposition was on from May 29, 2025-July 15 2025