Crystal Z Campbell’s (2022 Awardee) first solo museum exhibition, Currents 124: Crystal Z Campbell, at Saint Louis Art Museum, features their latest project: Post Masters. The series focuses on the complex history of the Philippines, particularly its time as a US colony and the aftermath. Rooted in their Black and Filipinx familial history, the work moves beyond autobiography to include “skins” from material legacies of extraction from abaca to manila envelopes. Specters of colonial bureaucracy are accompanied by large-scale handblown glass apothecary vessels and filmic flickers from a sacred touch-sensitive plant (Makahiya). Campbell sites these works and questions of colonial, corporeal, and material entanglements on the grounds of the former 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World’s Fair), where Filipinx peoples were brought to the US en masse as living displays. Post Masters is a fascinating and nuanced interrogation of histories of colonialism, colonial exploitation, and ongoing attitudes to empire, nature, and the natural world.