Ebony G. Patterson | Fragments of Epic Memory | Columbus Museum of Art

Hales is excited to announce the inclusion of Ebony G. Patterson in Fragments of Epic Memory at the Columbus Museum of Art, through 26 January 2025. 

 

Fragments of Epic Memory invites visitors to explore the Caribbean and its diaspora, placing historical documents in dialogue with an immersive array of contemporary art.

 

Shaped by centuries of colonization, enslavement, and rebellion, the Caribbean islands brought together populations from across four continents, joining the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia in what writer Derek Walcott calls a "shipwreck of fragments … shards of a huge tribal vocabulary." Placing these pieces into new arrangements, Fragments of Epic Memory assembles a multigenerational-and multicentric-survey of Caribbean art and visual culture.

 

The exhibition is anchored by a selection of over one hundred photographs from the Art Gallery of Ontario's Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs. These photographs document the aftermath of emancipation in the nineteenth century, a period that coincided with the invention of photography. Surrounding this photographic archive are paintings, photographs, video projections, and other works by Caribbean artists from the 1960s to the present. This juxtaposition reveals the ongoing process of freedom-seeking and world-building across the region and its global diaspora.