Numma Yah

Miatta Kawinzi’s solo exhibition “Numma Yah” brings together immersive sculptural installation, soundscape, and projected moving image to reflect on root systems materially and conceptually. Informed by Kawinzi’s Liberian cultural heritage, this exhibition meditates on ideas around protection, inter-connectivity, embodied memory, and the lessons learned from plant life. The title is a Kolokwa (Liberianized English) phrase used to offer words of comfort, uplifting the necessity of creating spaces of soothing in the face of disconnection, and marking Kawinzi’s intention in the work to trace lines of physical and psychic diasporic reconnection and energetic flow.