'PALIMPSEST' GROUP EXHIBITION, MARIANE IBRAHIM GALLERY CHICAGO

Written By Zohra Opoku

'PALIMPSEST' A SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION

MARIANE IBRAHIM GALLERY

July 30 - August 24, 2024

Chicago, USA

Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to announce Palimpsest, a summer group exhibition presenting work by ruby onyinyechi amanze, McArthur Binion, Bethany Collins, Carmen Neely, Zohra Opoku, Michael Rakowitz, and Edra Soto. Palimpsest sparks dialogue between hegemonic and emergent histories, private and public iconographies, mythologies, and fantasies.

Present in various text-based cultures since antiquity, the notion of the palimpsest has fascinated conservators, historians, and artists throughout modern history. A palimpsest is a manuscript support that has been reused by washing off or scraping the original text, creating layers of latent content that are partially visible, varying greatly in theme and time of creation

In direct view of each other, Collins’ texts converse with Zohra Opoku’s practice in which she transforms photography into silkscreen compositions detailed with sutures that memorialize her personal histories. Inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, this work witnesses the artist confronting her own mortality. Through her dialogue with this ancient text, she confronts uncertainty, and asserts her agency to author her own story.

Zohra Opoku
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