Black Angst

28/06/2021 till 05/07/2021

A solo exhibition.

No Format Gallery

Black Angst

A series of fast and assertive expressionist brushstrokes, Jaffar Aly illustrates and highlights how the embodied and lived experience of those from the diaspora is filled with angst, ambiguity, anger, fear, and confusion.

‘Its Black Angst’

I too can be nervous. I too can be in the clouds. I too can express myself. Do not lionise me or demonise me. I too can do what you do. I too…can. Because for too long, to be black was to be in a constant state of unease, to be black was to be impenetrable, to be black was to be in fear but fearless, to be black was to be in a state of continual flux, to be black was to have no roots, not allowed to float in the clouds like you.

Always precarious. Filled with Angst.

By Jaffar Aly