Tiwani Modern is happy to current the debut solo exhibition of a Juxtapoz good friend and favourite, Muzae Sesay: born on the earth. born on the earth. is an ongoing, psycho-geographic evaluation of the Earth we’re positioned onto and thus acts as a mirrored image of the artist’s neighbourhood in Oakland, California as a metaphorical system inferring extra common sociological concepts. Every portray its personal mundane romantic soliloquy constructed from an instinctive response that displays on Sesay’s each day interactions and ideas about his group and the bigger atmosphere. Inside this physique of labor, the juxtaposition of nature and constructed infrastructure helps illustrate a extra full thought of panorama in relation to the artist. A darkish rhythmic sample detached of morale or judgement emerges as a central system inside Sesay’s work.
Critically on native and international ranges, the omnipresence of deforestation and gentrification paired with an absence of direct company has contorted adjustments in the environment as ‘pure’ phenomena. A pacifying feeling of ambivalence in the direction of learn how to reckon with these adjustments is expressed by a way of underlying love and hopefulness via a sturdy color palette suppressed by shadow. Sesay’s surroundings stays straddled between a fleeting sundown and a mysterious midnight hour. Philosophically, we ask what half does aestheticism and wonder play in his summary compositions of those life-changing occasions?
