Embodied: Coming To America

This exhibition showcases photographic montages that explore narratives of struggle, resistance, and revelation.

ABOUT "CHUK" GABRIEL AMADI-EMINA

Chukwudumebi Gabriel Amadi-Eminais a Nigerian-American contemporary photographic & video artist, currently residing in the Baltimore area, Maryland. By combining his Nigerian roots with his ongoing experience as a black body in United States of America; Gabriel creates photographic narratives, embedded with performance & ritual, that reveal moments of those whose entireties are a result of the fusion of both their African-ness and blackness. Through portraiture (mostly self-portraiture), he interweaves pan-African perspective, effects and spirituality into western mythologies, allegories and misconceptions of the black body. Gabriel see’s the body as a conduit of truth to self, and truth of space. To not only navigate his personal intimate moments with blackness, but also challenge the way it is perceived, spiritually, mentally and physically.