Critical Writing Index

Out of Necessity and Out of Love: Andrea Fatona's 30-Year Tribute to Black Women

by Neil Price

Montréal: Momus, 2023

A review of the group exhibition Practice as Ritual/Ritual as Practice, curated by Andrea Fatona and presented at A Space Gallery. The exhibition featured works by ten artists from the Diasporic African Women's Art collective, in commemoration of a past exhibition by the same collective, Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter, exhibited 34 years prior. The article briefly describes each of the works presented and emphasizes the DAWA collective's impact on the art world.

ITEM 2023.008 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

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