Ashley Scott: Galerie Diamonikast Potsdam
October 19. 2024 – January 31. 2025
Ashley Scott addresses Black history and her own family history in her work. She incorporates themes such as slavery, sexism, the marginalization of minorities, and racial discrimination, both directly and indirectly. The artist particularly explores the fates of individual female family members, including that of her Great-Aunt Fancie, in her installations and sculptures.
Seemingly simple things, such as hairstyles and fashions, form a basis of her artistic work when juxtaposed with the female family biography, the current political events, and the zeitgeist of the periods.
In the context of slavery, Ashley Scott explores, among other things, the significance of her ancestors’ hair and hairstyles, makes the powerful optimism of an oppressed minority tangible for the viewer with sculptures such as Episodes 5 and 6 shown here, and criticizes the uniformity of fashions, trends and identical political views of social media society.