“MAMA, THESE LOOK LIKE LOST SOULS”
ALABAMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
December 9, 2022 - March 18, 2023
In her first museum solo exhibition, Soynika Edwards Bush will throw the doors open on a whole new body of work informed by her lived experience and cultivated over two years as the 2020-2022 Alabama Contemporary Artist In Residence. The exhibition title, “Mama, These Look Like Lost Souls” is a direct quote by the youngest of Bush’s four children, made in her studio this year as they watched her work from an air mattress under a blanket pile on the floor of her studio. Soynika’s work sources family photographs, drawing from her memories and direct relationships to create paintings that ultimately blunt the identities of her kin, to make way for a broader conversation about Black identity, Black History, and Black love. “Mama, These Look Like Lost Souls” is an exhibition about what is remembered, what is lost, and what is truly knowable within a human life. Exhibition curated by elizabet elliott.
