Sugar
Various Artist
December 11, 2021-February 6, 2022
On View: Saturday, December 11, 2021, 6:00 pm -10:00 pm
Virtual Opening

Yesterday, sugar’s cultivation as an anthropogenic crop spurred the production of plantation-based economies, eschewing pre-existing biodiversity, violently disregarding Indigenous sovereignty, and torturing the enslaved African descended body. Today, the commodity continues to line the fields of southeast Louisiana, alongside petrochemical and oil refineries, serving as a metaphor, a symbol for disaster capitalism. By examining the subtle and direct connections of sugar as a global catalyst, a colonizing agent, and a sweet danger, the artists shed light on how humans interact with sugar as an idea, a substance, a haunted past, a pleasure, a metaphor of privilege, a destructive force, a source of abundance and addiction, and a memory. This exhibition motivates us to examine the internal and external ramifications of the human desire for more. We invite you to time travel with us as you drink in Sugar.

Curated by Denise Frazier and Renee Royale

A P.5 Satellite Exhibition

Artists:
Amanda Cassingham-Bardwell
Amelia Broussard
Angel Perdomo
AnnieLaurie Erickson
Caesar Meadows
Carl Joe Williams
James W. Goedert
kai barrow
L.Kasimu Harris
Laura Gipson
MaPó Kinnord
Nic Brierre Aziz
Robin Levy
Ron Bechet
Rontherin Ratliff
Sean Fader
Shana M. griffin
Stylo Moniker
Thom Karamus
Ursa Eyer
Wayne Amedee

Image: Sugar – Gradient