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Leah Ra’chel Gipson, mixed-media installation, 2022.

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Date of completion: June 2022

Description: She Asked Her Mother… was an installation at Project Row Houses in

Houston for Round 53: The Curious Case of Critical Race... Theory? The installation explored sacred spaces between Black daughters, mothers, and “othermothers” that create possibilities for freedom while living in the South. It was presented as a meditation on spaces and rituals that Black girls invent when no other possibilities exist. Referencing a collection of family photos, and the family piano, the work celebrates intergenerational spiritual care practices and the curiosities of Black girls. This installation for Round 53 featured a new iteration of The Black Girlhood Altar, a multimedia, artifact-based, video, and object-based artwork and community collaboration with A Long Walk Home artists Scheherazade Tillet and Robert Narciso. Community members gave offerings to the altar in honor of missing and murdered Black girls and young women.