Exhibition Plan 'I want Us to be Well, Black Liberatory Rest' (2025)

 

I want Us to be Well, Black Liberatory Rest is an exhibition plan that explores spiritual wellness and rest as liberatory practices for Black women and nonbinary people. The exhibition plan offers a space to reimagine rest as a radical act of resistance and care. Centering Black artists from across the Diaspora, it highlights how restful spiritual wellness is vital to both individual and collective healing within Black communities. Grounded in the understanding that Black people’s relationship to rest is shaped by histories of enslavement, forced labor, immigration, capitalism, and sexism, the exhibition redefines rest as a practice of liberation. It also challenges the commodification of wellness, advocating instead for a return to community-rooted, intergenerational practices of care.