Artist Harmonia Rosales interrogates the ways believers and dreamers re-imagine myth-making offering a unique lens on West African mythology. By weaving ancient tales of the Orisha pantheon with her ancestral knowledge, Rosales’ paintings insert the African deities she grew up with into narratives that span the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance.
Through her painted works, Rosales brings an overlooked world and tradition into the grander creative canon. Dr. Akissi Britton, anthropologist specializing in African diasporic religions; Black feminisms; and diaspora/Black Atlantic theory will join Rosales for a post-lecture conversation about her practice and the role of visual culture in the reclamation of historically erased narratives.
April 2, 2025
6:00 – 7:30pm
Espacio de Culturas at KJCC // Virtual
53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012