Morel Doucet Exhibits in Roots and Roads at Franklin Street Works

Galerie Myrtis, proud representative of Morel Doucet, is excited to announce Doucet’s inclusion in the Roots and Roads exhibition, on view, at Franklin Street Works. The exhibition also features the work of contemporary artists Nakeya Brown, Becci Davis, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Wangui Maina, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Katarra LaRae Peterson, Jay Simple, Julianknxx, Bryan Keith Thomas, Nafis White, Andrew Wilson, and Nadia Wolff.

Roots and Roads focuses on recent work by emerging Black artists and is curated by Anita N. Bateman, a Providence, Rhode Island-based curator who specializes in modern and contemporary African art and art of the African Diaspora. The exhibition developed as a tribute to the African women who braided seeds and rice into their hair, and into the hair of their children, to ensure that they could provide sustenance despite the unknown circumstances effected by the transatlantic slave trade. This practice is a reflection of the central role hair and land play in articulating ideologies of affirming Blackness, both on the continent and in the African Diaspora. The exhibition title plays on homophones “roots” and “routes,” examining the multiple meanings of each in relation to history and memory.

artwork: I am not my hair (Imposter Syndrome), Silkscreen on paper with rice paper, 22 1/2″ x 30″, 2019