Cosmic Threads brings together work by three artists from the region—Funlola Coker, Erin Genia, and Maria Molteni—that considers humanity’s relationship to the universe outside the dominant lens of technological expansion and colonization. In their work, the cosmos becomes a site for reflecting on the interconnectivity wedded across all matter, human and non-human alike.

 

The works in Cosmic Threads bound across timelines and through space. Each artist carefully weaves together their own set of personal, cultural, spiritual, mythical, and historical references. The works travel into deep time, dialoguing with spiritual traditions from Yoruba, Dakota, and syncretic Catholic lineages. Collapsing the past, present, and future, the works in Cosmic Threads propose new models for considering our place in the world—centered on relationality and interdependence across vast and microscopic scales.