Otherwise takes its name from a way of thinking that shows up across Black radical and abolitionist traditions: the practice of envisioning and living in ways that disrupt the confines of dominant systems. This exhibition brings together fantasy, abstract, and other deeply imaginative work by artists directly impacted by incarceration, whose visions extend far beyond the walls that hold them. The works gathered here exemplify their disciplined practice of imagining – building other worlds, other selves, other futures, in the present tense. To dream otherwise is not to look away from what is; it is to insist that what is need not be all there is.
Valentino Amaya
Untitled
Acrylic
12 x 9 in
$130
