The deep rivers solomon5/21/2023 She learned to scuba dive with a GoPro camera in Senegal, Angola and Ghana. But her first foray into video, for the installation Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller, required a new level of physical commitment. Jackson, 45, whose life and work span three continents, has long framed her own body in her photography, usually in allusion to historical images of women of colour. The show is inspired by Drexciya, an imaginary underwater kingdom populated by the children of pregnant women who, considered “sick cargo” by transatlantic slave traders, were thrown overboard or jumped to their deaths during the Middle Passage. It is the centrepiece of From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya, an exhibition now open at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington.
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