Adia Millett: Wisdom Keepers
Solo Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art San José
Exhibition Period: 16 September 2023 - 18 February 2024
Exhibition Opening: 16 September 2023, 5-8pm
Address: 560 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113, United States
Gallery du Monde is pleased to announce that artist Adia Millett will present her solo exhibition "Wisdom Keepers" at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose from 16 September 2023 to 18 February 2024. Exhibition opening on 16 September 2023, 5-8pm.
Wisdom Keepers, a solo exhibition by Adia Millett, explores the parallels and interplay between a craftswoman and a warrior. In both cases “martial arts” is an intricate set of techniques and skills used with the intentions of protecting, preserving, and building a community and its culture. While the tools used in this process differ for the soldier and the quilter, put side by side a shared story is revealed, providing a new perspective of our ancestral past, and perhaps our future. Power, endurance, and resourcefulness reveal the cultural interplay between tribal war and post-slavery reconstruction. As exhibited by the title, the characters and tools crafted in this exhibition act as keepers of knowledge, guidance and keen judgment.
Millett’s new work is a response to an in-depth look at the African American quilt collection at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Through three-dimensional “future relics,” such as quilted sculptures, paintings, glass shields, crocheted spears and an immersive sound sculpture, Millett invites her viewers to enter an abstract narrative. The space becomes a shrine and a spiritual battlefield simultaneously. The four quilts from BAMPFA present the viewer with a foundation for which Millett’s lineage of fabric, formal composition, and use of color palette derive from.
The craft components in this exhibition range from weaving, crochet, quilting, paint, and fused glass, each reflecting on our physical relationship to our earthly environment. In addition, Millett will collaborate with Bay Area dance performers, sound artists, and crafters to further develop the interplay between our ancient past, present day, and distant future.
Learn more --
https://www.icasanjose.org/upcoming-exhibitions/adia-millett-wisdom-keepers/
