Published by Galerie
June 18, 2024
Featuring Akea Brionne
June 2023 Cohort
Akea Brionne’s vibrant works masterfully blend the traditional art of jacquard tapestry with an innovative process that employs photography and artificial intelligence. In essence, her Afro-Surrealist pieces are about identity and relationship to place, or “social geography,” as she calls it. In Brionne’s world, statuesque Black women are depicted against dreamy, unidentified, and often desolate backgrounds. “I explore a lot of ideas surrounding displacement, assimilation, and the preservation and reclamation of ancestral wisdom through storytelling, Surrealism, and world building as a Creole woman,” says Brionne.