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Hammer Projects: Vamba Bility

Date
March 29
Time
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Cost
Free
Organizer’s Site
hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2024/hammer-projects-vamba-bility
Council District
City Council District 5
Event Series Dates
Through May 19

Vamba Bility is a multidisciplinary artist whose work echoes the experience of the African diaspora. Having journeyed from Côte d’Ivoire to Guinea to the United States, Bility perceives this contested way of living as a blur, albeit one that is deeply intimate. In his hands, this blurred sensibility becomes a fluid movement that draws on various material histories. He expresses the reverberating motions of his existence by leaning on and weaving together mediums and materials such as painting, textiles, found objects, and sound. A cracked calabash gets sewn together. A torn canvas gets stitched as a salve. A painting is propped up by a brick or two. All of this is a form of mark-making that structures the landscape of diaspora as a material residue of atmosphere, of feeling, of process. Bility threads this through a shared poiesis—a bringing forth, a revelation—that sketches out an architecture of what it means to be.

Location

Hammer Museum, UCLA
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024 United States
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Phone:
310.443.7000
Website:
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Organizer

Hammer Museum
Phone
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