A selection of self-portraits, including "Ngewo Whispers." In this work, Fawundu occupies ghostly sites that bore witness to events of the African diaspora, such as Savannah, GA. Dressed in a bright blue dress and wearing cowries in her hair, she captures herself amidst a verdant setting. This scene situates the artist's body as a bridge between the human and more-than-human worlds, threading a connective strand of exchange between the energetically active space of nature and the material structures of history. In "Black like Blue in Argentina" and "Oxum at Eko," Fawundu generates connective threads of exchange between the magical space of nature and the material structures of history. Inhabiting colonial architecture, wooded forests, balls of cotton, and her childhood hairdo of the crescent curl, she reformulates spaces of positivity and empowerment in the shadows of cultural annihilation and historical violence.
