Dear Shaded Viewers,
My dear and long standing friend Satch Hoyt has dedicated this exhibition to his son Isha Hoyt and the Jamaican cultural theorist and sociologist Staurt Hall, who both passed away in 2014. "Riding Celestial Chariots: On Mining Entangled Vernaculars is the first exhibition in a yearlong series of exhibitions that deal with the epistemology of objects and many narratives that accompany these objects when they encounter or existence with or within other cultures." The afro comb serves as a point of departure or key to unlock many narratives that accompanied and still are a companion to the African presence. Hair Combing Cyle #14 is a pivotal piece in the exhibition – a communal grooming performance of fourteen women from Africa and the African Diaspora seated in a circle and combing their hair in a choreographed percussive performance. Satch is in equal parts an artist and a musician. He has worked with the likes of Grace Jones and Louise Bourgeois.
Later,
Diane