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Shannon Bono: Mimosa Flower

Past exhibition
24 October 2024 - 31 January 2025 Brussels
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Mimosa Flower (There Are Buds In My Fingers Growing Beautiful Things), 2024 Acrylic, spray paint and image transfer on paper 100 x 70 cm (detail)
Mimosa Flower (There Are Buds In My Fingers Growing Beautiful Things), 2024 Acrylic, spray paint and image transfer on paper 100 x 70 cm (detail)

Adrian Sutton Gallery is delighted to present Shannon Bono's "Mimosa Flower (There Are Buds In My Fingers Growing Beautiful Things)" in its Brussels Gallery from Thursday 24 October. The opening reception will take place on 19 November from 6 to 9 pm.

Shannon Bono’s paintings embody an afrofemcentrist consciousness, centralising the experiences of black womanhood through her own lens. Using oils, acrylics and spray paints, she is invested in producing layered, figurative, compositions embedded with symbolism that centralise black womanhood as a source of knowledge and understanding. Bono’s paintings provide a portal to an alternative dimension where magic occurs, in this alternate realm she demonstrates the interactions with spiritual beings and artefacts that support the subject in their everyday lives. Enamoured by African spiritually, Christian iconography and renaissance art, she employs its purpose of cultural impact for an improved society. Bono explores the internal body as well as the external, by merging the design of notable fabrics from Africa with scientific imagery proving a visual language for magic and divination as the foundations of her story telling. The anatomy acts as a second canvas in the foreground, using the body as a powerful signifier that provokes dialogue by playing with pose, gesture and the gaze to challenge reality.

 

 

Mimosa Flower (There Are Buds In My Fingers Growing Beautiful Things), 2024
Acrylic, spray paint and image transfer on paper
100 x 70 cm


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