Relics of Home is a multidisciplinary exhibition utilizing photography, text, installation, and sound to examine origin stories – real and imagined.
This work is a journey of research and reconciliation. I look into the past, upon the histories of Black people in this country – I look into the gaping ambiguity of what is the beginning of Black identity. I attempt to conjure the ‘who’ that we were before we were stolen, transported, sold and exploited. At least, that’s where I began. Swallowed by the missing and forgotten ancestors and traditions. Where I have arrived is a different place entirely.
Jovan C. Speller is a Minnesota based artist, curator, and arts administrator originally from Los Angeles, CA. For over 15 years Jovan has had a dedicated career in the arts. Her work – visual, textual and performative – interprets historic narratives through contemporary discourse. Her research-based practice is centered around elevating, complicating and inventing stories that explore ancestry, identity, and spatial memory – making the intangible tangible and the invisible visible.
FREE
2019/11/06 - 2020/01/04
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Gallery Saint Germain
Wed – Fri 11:00AM – 5:00PM
Sat 10:00AM – 2:00PM
Paramount Center for the Arts & Gallery St. Germain
912 West St. Germain Street, MN