Sanford Biggers' new project "Codex" at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL

Mar 30 - Oct 14 2012

Ringling Museum of Art
Sarasota , FL

Codex presents the latest work by internationally renowned installation artist, Sanford Biggers.  Using a complex system of imagery including star maps, dance notations, the Buddhist lotus composed of a slave ship diagram, and cloud forms made out of raw cotton, Biggers explores the Afrofuturist notion of “Harriet Tubman as astronaut” as she led slaves to their freedom guided by the stars.  The theme of transcendence, represented by the lotus motif and cloud imagery, reminds the viewer of the power of the human will to overcome oppression. Many of these late nineteenth-, early-twentieth-century quilts were donated to Biggers by the descendant of slave owners adding a poignant historical echo to the work.


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