La Sombra y el Espíritu: Womens' Healing Rituals in the Diaspora - The Work of Lucia Mendez and Wendy Phillips
From February 4-April 30, 2010, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History will feature the work of Wendy Phillips, an Atlanta-based photographer, and painter Lucia Mendez from the Dominican Republic, in a show entitled La Sombra y el Espíritu: Womens' Healing Rituals in the Diaspora - The Work of Lucia Mendez and Wendy Phillips.
La Sombra y El Espíritu brings together two innovative artists whose meditations on rites, rituals and women's roles as healers, provide us with a new window on spirituality in the diaspora. Mendez Poster_Final.pdf (418 kB)
Wendy Phillips has been working with communities in Mexico and other areas in South and Central America for the past 15 years. She is particularly known for her iconic photography from Afro-Mexican communities in La Costa Chica, Oaxaca, and Guerrero.
Lucia Mendez' work reflects her interest in both our material investment in ritual and worship, as well as the subtlety implicit in our performance of those rituals. She examines this interplay by exploring the relationships between gesture, the attitude of the body, and women's practices of spiritual conversation.
This exhibition supports Carolina Performing Arts and its Creative Campus Initiative's yearlong programmatic focus on Diasporas. This project also marks the first collaboration between the Stone Center and Radames Rivera of Galeria Exodo in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on February 4 at 7 pm at the Stone Center. Both artists will attend to speak about their work. You can see examples of their work at:
For Lucia Mendez
http://galeriaexodo.com/lucia_
For Wendy Phillips
http://www.diasporacitizen.
