Poetry in the Galleries: Slam Anderson responds to Samantha Modder’s “May Your Life Be Easy”
In "May Your Life Be Easy," Samantha Modder combines allegory and fairytale to explore aspiration, power, and interlocking systems of oppression through larger-than-life, digitally altered ballpoint-pen drawings of Black women. Drawing its title from a blessing once offered to her mother by a Nigerian village elder, the exhibition reflects on the complications of being a person from the imagined Global South pursuing the promises of an equally imagined Global North. Inspired by masquerade and Orisha dancers from the Yoruba tradition, Modder creates lively, kinetic scenes that use an enchanting, storybook aesthetic to dissect privilege and the hard truths of a capitalist reality.
Event Links
Facebook: https://go.evvnt.com/3475070-0
