For thirty years, multidisciplinary artist Sonya Clark has concentrated her work on the African diaspora in the United States, aiming to confront, elucidate, and reframe its history. In her artistic practice, she often explores these themes through everyday fiber materials, including hair, flags, and found fabric, as well as various craft practices. Clark’s work intricately weaves together craft and community, with her participatory projects facilitating new collective encounters that transcend racial, gender, and socioeconomic divisions. The exhibition Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other is currently on display at The High Museum in Atlanta and highlights the artist’s community-centric and participatory efforts.
Through her art, Clark urges individuals to acknowledge their personal responsibility to the collective whole, prompting reflection on critical questions such as, “How do we address and challenge our shared colonial past, and how do we hold ourselves accountable for and claim agency in what happens next in the future of our society?” We Are Each Other serves as both a declaration and an invitation, a battle cry and an embrace.
This exhibition is co-organized by The High Museum, the Cranbrook Art Museum in metro Detroit, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
All works of art are created by Sonya Clark (American, born 1967) unless otherwise noted.
