Brave Beauties in Communion: Imaging Black Queer Liberation

This exhibition brings together works by contemporary photographers Daniel Obasi, DeLovie Kwagala, Keren Lasme, Nella Ngingo, and Stephen Tayo in an effort to understand the image of black queer liberation through a self directed and self sustained lens. Nella Ngingo's series is a necessary point of departure in imaging the queer subject. Departing from the pink washed glamor that over saturates queer imaging (specifically in Europe and North America), Ngingo chooses familiarity as a lens for her subjects. Lastly, Brave Beauties in Communion: Imaging Black Queer Liberation is an ode to Motormond’s ethos of circulating critical pan-diasporic culture. This is a communioning, a politically charged coming together of queer Africans in diaspora and queer indigenous Africans. A space for symbiosis and eccentric economies, with the need to pan diasporic-ally politically align as the strongest under-current. 1 Blackpentecostal Breath The Aesthetics of Possibility – Ashon T. Crawley 2