Exhibitions

ALI WALLER + AYO JANEEN JACKSON: APOTHECARY

Wavelength Space / 854 McCallie Ave. February 11, 2023 - February 28, 2023

Ali Waller, Ayo Janeen Jackson

In connection with the Triennial theme of Re-Pair and the belief that art can be used as a vehicle for healing, positive societal change, and love, Ali Waller (based in Chattanooga, TN) and Ayo Janeen Jackson (from NC but based in NY) share practices that focus on the exposure and healing of trauma, rebirth, transition, & transformation. Ali and Ayo collaboratively view their role as artist’s to be like that of a birth or death Doula - seeking to insert themselves into challenging societal and personal transitions to forge paths to empowerment and growth. These artists base their work upon sites of trauma- whether that be from personal experiences of survival or through a desire to mend generational and systemic wrong. Utilizing the visual language of sculpture they draw out emotional, physical, and spiritual wounds from within the body, into the air, and into communal view. Ali Waller states, “Although our wounds come from different sources we are both working to heal them.” Over the past 6 months, Ayo and Ali have been working collaboratively to locate areas of connection between their practices and to realize installation and sculptural works in the space that will bridge gaps between the varied contexts of healing that their works address. - Raquel Mullins (curator/director)

Image: Apothecary by Ali Waller and Ayo Janeen Jackson