“Ayida” Gallery Talk with Curator Serubiri Moses

Join us at the ICA in Gallery 2 to learn about Ayida with ICA guest curator Serubiri Moses.

Ayida is a new group exhibition celebrating the Caribbean and its diaspora, featuring works by Lizania Cruz, Oletha DeVane, Thomas Allen Harris, mujero, and Didier William. The show’s main inspiration is the Haitian poet Assotto Saint (1957–1994), an important figure in the 1980s Black and gay writers movement in New York. Saint’s own complex relationship with Haitian Vodou (a topic frequently censored in Western societies) forms the starting point for Ayida’s focus on movement-based religious practice and the syncretism between different religions and cultures—themes the artists explore through archives, photography, installation, sculpture, painting, and printmaking.

At this talk, Moses will provide an introduction to the exhibition and describe his curatorial process.

5–5:30 p.m. cash bar and refreshments
5:30–6:30 p.m. gallery talk