SHINING REVELRY
An Alter Book Set
Shining Revelry is a celebration of ancestral adornment and the radiant beauty found in resistance. This artist book set honors my enslaved ancestors, whose bodies carried the weight of labor yet also the shimmer of love and survival. Through acts of embellishment, gesture, and reverence, I reimagine adornment as both a shield and a sanctuary. In their resistance, there is love; in their endurance, a brilliance that refuses to dim. Shining Revelry is my offering to that light, a testament to the sacred joy that persists even in the face of bondage.
Category
Artist Book Set
Exhbitions
Venus Reincarnated
Year
2025
Photo Credit
Essence Enwere
Haadiya Numani @shotbyhaadiya
VENUS REINCARNATED
Presented at Public Functionary, this exhibition, curated by Margarita Lila Rosa, offers a timely meditation on how Venus lives on in contemporary culture. Minneapolis, a city with deep histories of resistance, migration, and cultural regeneration, becomes the perfect site for Venus’ reincarnation. In the fictional world of Venus Reincarnated, Venus is goddess and galaxy, symbol and vessel, archive and oracle. In this exhibition, artists engage with Venus not as a fixed ideal but as a living, breathing framework through which to explore materiality, memory, fantasy, and power.
