ceramic, found objects, rope, acrylic sheet, chain, bandana scarf, cowrie shells, wire, textile, barbed wire, interior house paint, metal leaf, paint markers, heat-activated chrome, glaze; 79x72x6″
“‘Liberation and Peace’ is a ceramic installation that reflects my study of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Turé) and his statements on the contradiction of liberation and peace. Turé asserts that for Black and Brown people, liberation is first, while colonial powers create a pursuit for peace in the wake of inequality. Peace without liberation continues cycles of injustice and inequity, ensuring people remain colonized physically and economically.”
ARTIST BIO: First-generation American, Kyle Christoph Salandy (b. 1991, Brooklyn, New York) was raised in Southeastern Pennsylvania with roots in Trinidad and Tobago. Currently pursuing dual degrees at the University of Cincinnati to earn both a Master of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in Art Education. A ceramics artist, he explores identity, cultural history, and resilience through dramatic figurative forms, vessels, and altars based on pan-African spiritual worldviews, ancestral memories, and ritual aesthetics