Episode 2: The Complexities of Immigration with Abena

04/05/2021 43 min Episodio 2

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Episode Synopsis

Abena Motaboli is a Chicago-based educator, visual artist, and writer. Known for her intricate plastic installations and meditative line-work in her paintings, she is influenced by her home country of Lesotho and Southern African culture. She uses ephemeral material such as plastic, tea, dirt, and coffee to comment on displacement, past memories, and the culture of creating.
Growing up in international communities and being an immigrant, she is strongly influenced by the diversity of people, memories, displacement, the other, and ideas of human resilience seen through immigration.
She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibits such as SOFA Chicago, Bhavan Gallery based in London, Woman Made Gallery, DIFFA Pop-Up Gold Coast Gallery, and Aqua Art Miami to name a few, her work is also placed in private collections throughout the U.S.
You can find her art at www.abenaart.com or Etsy @JoyousByAbenaart
Music: LAKEY INSPIRED - Better Days