The reception of the actors of Eregnaye drama in America. Like Shebeshe, each artist in the exhibition has a unique relationship with the US context reflected in their work. The states of Becoming examines the ongoing process of these artists identifying, redefining, and becoming themselves in local and global contexts, a constant stream of social and cultural adjustment. opens perspectives on multiple geographic and emotional states. The exhibition presents works in various mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and video, representing the many ways in which identity can be remade and reinvented. Nonziquerello Mutiti, for example, takes its cues from the hair-braiding salons of the African diaspora, and Amare Self moves from figurative to abstract to express the transformation that results from displacement. These diverse experiences create a sense of hybrid culture that emerges from accurate and imagined genealogies of cultural, racial, national, and geographic affiliation. While the artists’ artistic methods and experiences in the States of Becoming vary, each seeks to re-imagine a hybrid culture composed of real and imaginary genealogies. Cultural, racial, national, and geographic affiliations. The exhibitions fall broadly into his three categories: People whose aesthetic forms have undergone dramatic changes since immigration. People who want to share the experience and culture of their country of origin within the community in which they currently live. And those who build bridges between the African diaspora and the host country’s African-American artists.
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