100 Years of “Delusions and Half Truths”: New Mixed Media Works by Becci Davis in Collaboration with the Rhode Island State Archives

August 19, 2020 – October 13, 2020
Opening Reception Cancelled due to COVID-19 Emergency

EXHIBITION STATEMENT:
Using resonant artifacts from the Rhode Island State Archives, Becci Davis’ topographical palimpsests question widely-circulated narratives about women’s suffrage, exposing the complex questions of race often left out of them. Her mixed media sculptures are not only rooted in intersectional feminism and attend to the many ways Black women experienced structural and ideological barriers to suffrage differently than white women, they also interrogate the specifics of place, and the power of locality. Mapping a series of charged spaces that are as important as the people whose activism took shape in them, Davis’ speculative cartographies offer new paths through the 100-year-old story of women’s suffrage in Rhode Island.