Snakes as holy messengers, a woman-led rebellion, and a woman as God; ideologies once honored, now ironic.
Here at this table, we guard the gates to our history. We keep the lessons close and our ancestors closer.
We honor the past and use it to inform the present.
At this table, we pay homage first and foremost.
We inform. We reform.
When they said, "The table has turned," this was the table they were talking about...
After almost four years, Nneka Osueke takes a solo art venture with A Seat At The Table as her debut one-woman show in Thailand. ASATT is an invitation and visual history of studies on West African Spirituality before European Christianity. Pulling from her own family lineage, Osueke uses historical events and folk tales to introduce the Igbo practices of Odinala, the Yoruba Orishas, and parts of West African Vodun.
A Seat At The Table
Lido Art Space
Chiang Mai, Thailand
April 1-May 1, 2022
Champagne Toast and Artist Talk
April 2, 2022