Curated by Key Jo Lee, chief of curatorial affairs and public programs, Unruly Navigations testifies to the urgent, disorderly, rebellious, and nonlinear movements of people, cultures, ideas, religions, and aesthetics that define diaspora. Whether it is one of Haitian-born ceramicist and painter Morel Doucet’s delicate porcelain busts, Vanessa German’s provoking multimedia sculptures, or Jamaican sculptor Nadine Natalie Hall’s hand-molded paving blocks made of sugar, coconut, water, and peanuts, this exhibition’s more than forty artworks and four site-specific installations capture multidimensional trajectories through time, across geographies, and through complex spiritual landscapes. In doing so, they augment and deepen, and at times, completely refute, conventional accounts of diasporic experience which have historically misrepresented, mischaracterized, and misplaced stories from the perspective of the enslaved, the forcibly displaced, or otherwise disenfranchised.

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