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Billie Zangewa

Thread for a Web Begun

Dexter Wimberly Museum of the African Diaspora

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English
Cameron & Company Inc
29 August 2023
"Published to accompany the exhibition presented by the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, Billie Zangewa: Thread for a Web Begun explores Zangewa's creation of literal and figurative tapestries of the everyday lives and contemporary intersectional identities of Black women. Through her hand-sewn silk collages, which primarily depict Black women in the domestic sphere, Zangewa reclaims a medium that was once relegated as ""women's work"" and delves into the familiarity, beauty, and sociopolitical drivers of the seemingly mundane. Beginning her career in the fashion and advertising industries, Zangewa employs her understanding of textiles to portray personal and universal experiences through domestic interiors, urban landscapes, and portraiture. Through the method of their making and their narrative content, Zangewa's silk paintings illustrate gendered labor in a sociopolitical context, where the domestic sphere becomes a pretext for a deeper understanding of the construction of identity, questions around gender stereotypes, and racial prejudice. This volume, packaged in a beautiful slipcase, showcases the past 15 years of Zangewa's work as well as new pieces made for this exhibition, and although many of these decontextualized pieces are autobiographical, all of them portray a sense of intimacy and exploration of identity-connecting the pieces to each other through a larger narrative about Black femininity and tugging on the thread of the viewer's own lived experience."

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Imprint:   Cameron & Company Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 356mm,  Width: 305mm,  Spine: 53mm
ISBN:   9781951836863
ISBN 10:   1951836863
Pages:   112
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dexter Wimberly has exhibited the work of hundreds of artists internationally and founded the Hayama Artist Residency in Japan. During his decade-long career, he has organized exhibitions and programs at dozens of museums and galleries, including the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) Raleigh, the California African American Museum, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), 101/EXHIBIT gallery, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, bitforms gallery, Koki Arts gallery (Tokyo), and the Third Line Gallery (Dubai). The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), a Smithsonian affiliate, is a contemporary art museum that celebrates Black cultures, ignites challenging conversations, and inspires learning through the global lens of the African Diaspora. MoAD is uniquely positioned as one of the few museums in the world focused exclusively on African Diaspora culture and on presenting the rich cultural heritage of the people of Africa and of African descendant cultures all across the globe.

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