PAST, PRESENT & AFRO FUTURISM

July 9th- Aug 7th, 2022

exhibiting artists: YASHI DAVALOS, RENEE ROYALE, ALEX SORAPURU

curated by Yashi Davalos

The Front Galllery

New Orleans, LA

Past, Present, and Afro-Futurism is an afro-surrealist exploration into the timeline of black cultural representation and idealism in community. In reflecting on the legacies of black thought through art, we follow black exotification from its origin, showing how the past shapes the present through social gatekeeping, and how aesthetics of excess serves as a cultural binary to elude the future of black life.