Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle: The Evanesced
410 Cottage Home St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Saturday, February 23 at 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Ends Feb 23, 2019
In The Evanesced, 100+ drawings, large scale paintings and a suite of performances bring attention to a painful subject: missing black womxn in America and the African diaspora, from history to the present day. Abstract "un-portraits" of elusive figures are conjured up--drawn with handmade brushes and while the Hinkle improvises dances to blues, hip-hop, and Baltimore Club music--pivot between real and imagined narratives representing thousands of black women who have disappeared due to colonialism, human trafficking, homicides, and other forms of erasure. The Evanesced: Embodied Disappearance is a suite of performances that evoke the presences of various types of womxn navigating historical and contemporary contexts. The performance--which includes a soundtrack of whispers, shuffles, and snippets of popular and underground music--adds another dimension to this emotional examination of a fraught part of the black female experience. The Evanesced is an expression of the #SayHerName movement of mourning, awareness, and healing.