Adia Millett's solo exhibition Power Unearthed is featured in Harper's Bazaar in an article by Adaline Li.
Excerpted from the full article published in Harper's Bazaar; translated from the original Chinese text.
In her first solo exhibition in Taiwan, Millett presents Power Unearthed as an inquiry into the entanglements of power, the body, and nature. The double-sided textile Fire Power distills this focus: from a distance it resembles a floral tapestry sewn from 1930s vintage fabric, but up close the flower centers resolve into spent bullet casings. Turned over, the casings form a radiating core from which vivid red feathers bloom, invoking the violence of the Jim Crow era.
Two monumental textiles made with Jenny Hurth — Moon Medicine and You will always be the Ground, Sea, and Galaxy — extend a lineage of collective women's craft and patchwork associated with Faith Ringgold. In Moon Medicine, fabrics used for surgical scrubs and workwear are dismantled and reassembled; under direct flash, lunar phases and reflective strips resembling mineral strata emerge. Shown alongside works on extractive mining, the piece reads as a stark elegy for marginalized communities made to bear the costs of resource plunder.
Image: Adia Millett, Power Unearthed, gdm Taipei, 2026 (installation view). Photography by Lin Hsuan Lang
Text Courtesy of Harper's Bazaar.
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https://www.harpersbazaar.com/tw/culture/exhibition/a74300465/adia-millett-tw-exposition-2026/
