Parable 003

Kenturah Davis, Huntress Janos, Alima Lee, Josiah Mackey, Chris Martin, Umar Rashid/Frohawk Two Feathers, Boima Tucker/Adam Cooper, Hana Ward, Andrew Wilson

Curated by Alex Jones and Kevin Bernard Moultrie-Daye

Parable 003 is an exhibition of black visual and conceptual contemporary art rooted in the liberatory possibilities of black community, settlement, and creative expression. Artists’ work incorporates visual, material, and cultural aspects of a new free black state through video, sculpture, textile, sound, and digital media.

Part ode and part elegy to Octavia Butler’s unfinished Parable trilogy, this exhibition investigates the vanishing point of an idea. It is a blueprint for the near future of black sovereignty where California’s histories of migration, radical participation, and experimental living converge into a foundation for the future of Blackness.