Fabric/ating communities in the work of Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith: distortions and re-directions of scales, places and gazes

Fabric/ating communities in the work of Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith: distortions and re-directions of scales, places and gazes

This article links the works of two Caribbean American visual artists, Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith, who include in their equally large installations practices of sewing, stitching, quilting, combining and assembling fabric and thread. In the context of Black Atlantic deportations, these practic...

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Hlavní autor: Wallart, Kerry-Jane
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Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Angles 2025
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Collage
diasporic arts
fabric
belonging
Ebony Patterson
Nyugen Smith
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_10294 https://doi.org/10.4000/159p2 urn:doi:10.4000/159p2 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/10294 2025-12-03T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/159p2 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Fabric/ating communities in the work of Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith: distortions and re-directions of scales, places and gazes Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Wallart, Kerry-Jane Collage diasporic arts fabric belonging Ebony Patterson Nyugen Smith This article links the works of two Caribbean American visual artists, Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith, who include in their equally large installations practices of sewing, stitching, quilting, combining and assembling fabric and thread. In the context of Black Atlantic deportations, these practices function as rites of togetherness within a haunted space of forced mobility and uprootedness, as well as of reconstitution of isolated and frail traces. I contend that both visual artists open up a space of fabric/ation where experiences of Black diasporic existence can be gathered and shared, thus making for a common and communal reception of aesthetic sensibility. This is operated through work on scale, which is both monumental and minute; and on the de-centered spatiality implemented by works which are both immediately striking, and long to circulate through and around in their entirety. Ultimately, Patterson’s and Smith’s works interrogate the direction of White gazes on the Black body.
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topic Collage
diasporic arts
fabric
belonging
Ebony Patterson
Nyugen Smith
spellingShingle Collage
diasporic arts
fabric
belonging
Ebony Patterson
Nyugen Smith
Wallart, Kerry-Jane
Fabric/ating communities in the work of Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith: distortions and re-directions of scales, places and gazes
description This article links the works of two Caribbean American visual artists, Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith, who include in their equally large installations practices of sewing, stitching, quilting, combining and assembling fabric and thread. In the context of Black Atlantic deportations, these practices function as rites of togetherness within a haunted space of forced mobility and uprootedness, as well as of reconstitution of isolated and frail traces. I contend that both visual artists open up a space of fabric/ation where experiences of Black diasporic existence can be gathered and shared, thus making for a common and communal reception of aesthetic sensibility. This is operated through work on scale, which is both monumental and minute; and on the de-centered spatiality implemented by works which are both immediately striking, and long to circulate through and around in their entirety. Ultimately, Patterson’s and Smith’s works interrogate the direction of White gazes on the Black body.
author Wallart, Kerry-Jane
author_facet Wallart, Kerry-Jane
author_sort Wallart, Kerry-Jane
title Fabric/ating communities in the work of Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith: distortions and re-directions of scales, places and gazes
title_short Fabric/ating communities in the work of Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith: distortions and re-directions of scales, places and gazes
title_full Fabric/ating communities in the work of Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith: distortions and re-directions of scales, places and gazes
title_fullStr Fabric/ating communities in the work of Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith: distortions and re-directions of scales, places and gazes
title_full_unstemmed Fabric/ating communities in the work of Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith: distortions and re-directions of scales, places and gazes
title_sort fabric/ating communities in the work of ebony patterson and nyugen smith: distortions and re-directions of scales, places and gazes
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