Artist Talk: Breath of God - A Love Letter to Black Men and Women

Breath of God, A Love Letter to Black Men and Black Women serves as a visual exploration and witness to the celebration of black identity. Photographer Jacquel Curry and multidisciplinary artist Ashli Ognelodh Curry create works that highlight black men and women as vessels of beauty, resilience, and joy.
Each piece carries the beauty of complexity and the quiet power of divine presence that is within the black existence.
For years, black men and black women have long been the keepers of strength and initiators of culture, but oftentimes their labor, love, and light have gone unrecognized or misunderstood.
This exhibition implores the audience towards a different gaze. One that sees black men and black women not through struggle and trauma, but through reverence and pure joy.
These works serve as a love letter to honor those that were here, and those that are still here.
May black men and black women feel seen.
May Black men and black women be cherished.
May Black men and black women breathe freely.