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Collective Ancestry Emerges within the Numerous Faces of Nastassja Swift’s Portraits — Colossal

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#Africa
#id
#Nastassja Swift
#portraits
#quilts
#sculpture
#wool

July 10, 2024

Kate Mothes

“so I filled my nest with flowers from your garden”  (2023), wool, glass beads, wooden, and foam, 30 x 12 x 12 inches. Photographs by David Hunter Hale. All pictures © Nastassja Swift, shared with permission

From felted wool and quilted material, vibrant portraits emerge in sculptures and tapestries by Nastassja Swift (beforehand). Tiny faces coat the bottom of a blossom-like bust or swim across the billowing types of her Sack Sequence, evoking a way of common connectedness. The artist is influenced by household historical past, textile traditions, West African masks, and Yoruba rituals, gathering quite a few tiny visages into compositions that talk to ancestral collectivity, shared experiences, and recollections of African diasporic communities.

Tapping into the wealthy heritage of Black quilting traditions, Swift started to make tapestries depicting members of the family, spurred by a challenge in 2021 titled Canaan: after I learn your letter, I really feel your voice, which advanced from an change between the artist and her brother, Canaan, who’s at present incarcerated throughout the Virginia Division of Corrections.

Throughout this time, Swift started leaning away from wool towards quilted portraits, however she needed to retain the presence of a sculptural object. “I still wanted them to have dimension, which informed the decision of how to display each quilt,” she tells Colossal, deciding to put in the items on hand-made rods by fellow artist Patty Lyons, depicting faces and braid-like tendrils. She attracts from household images of her kinfolk, together with a snap of herself as a child within the arms of her aunt, creating a singular, family-centered self-portrait.

Swift has lately returned to utilizing wool, generally including wooden and beads, plus additional explorations into unconventional supplies. These experiments, which incorporate discovered objects like plastic luggage and thrifted hair barrettes, are the beginnings of a challenge exploring the historical past and id of the hood as a garment.

“so I filled my nest with flowers from your garden” is one among two items on view on the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore by September 30. The present, BLACK WOMAN GENIUS, positions the work of the late Elizabeth Talford Scott on the core of a bunch exhibition that includes work by 9 up to date Black ladies fiber artists from the Chesapeake space.

Discover extra on Swift’s web site, and comply with updates on Instagram.

 

Element of “so I filled my nest with flowers from your garden”

“of a feather” (2023), wool, velvet, leather-based, iron, glass beads, and batting, 40 x 48 x 6 inches

Element of “of a feather”

“For Auntie Rasha (Self Portrait)” (2022), wool, naturally dyed cotton, blended materials, iron, plastic, and tapestry rod fabricated by Patty Lyons, 40 x 30 x 4 inches

Element of “For Auntie Rasha (Self Portrait)”

“we have to fight, although we have to cry (a quote from the Sonia Sanchez poem, “Morning Song and Evening Walk”)” (2023), wool, velvet, leather-based, wooden, and batting, 30 x 19 x 8.5 inches

“For Granddaddy” (2022), wool, blended materials, glass beads, iron, plastic, and tapestry rod fabricated by Patty Lyons, 48 x 38 x 4 inches

#Africa
#id
#Nastassja Swift
#portraits
#quilts
#sculpture
#wool

 

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