EBONY FWD, introduced by Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, made its splashy debut at Artwork Basel Miami 2023 with an unforgettable immersive expertise of artwork, music and tradition.
Held at The Temple Home in Miami’s South Seashore, the two-day occasion featured bodily and digital installations from 11 Black multimedia artists, stellar performances and a fascinating artist talkback.
DJ Kitty Ca$h spun tunes for EBONY FWD’s standing-room-only opening evening occasion on December 9, the place Mariah the Scientist kicked off the night with a high-octane efficiency of “Stone Chilly” and “Unfold Skinny.” Probability the Rapper then took the stage and electrified the gang with three signature songs: “No Downside,” “The Highs & The Lows” and “All Evening.”
Fashionable visitors sipped on Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar and nibbled gentle bites from Chef Amaris Jones whereas taking within the art work hung all through the venue. Artwork additionally splashed throughout the venue’s partitions and ceiling by way of a digital show that additionally featured a large assortment of EBONY covers spanning over eight many years and Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar’s partaking video that introduced EBONY FWD talkback speaker Surprise Buhle Mbambo’s portrait work to life.
Neighborhood Crusader artist Tiffanie Anderson, introduced by Nationwide, featured three works from her astonishing glass-created assortment. “I really feel this EBONY FWD occasion has given me life,” she declared over her portraits of President Barack Obama, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jean-Michel Basquiat. “I simply had a child, and I felt like I would misplaced a little bit sense of self. This occasion jogged my memory of who I’m as an artist.”
On December 10, visitors as soon as once more entered the house by way of a crimson carpet flanked with extra covers, together with that of EBONY’s founder, John H. Johnson.
VIP visitor Vivica A. Fox shared, “EBONY stands for excellence, Black excellence. So to come back right here for Artwork Basel and to have the ability to take within the tradition on this approach, it simply appears very becoming.”
The opposite exhibited artists at EBONY FWD had been Charly Palmer, Krista Clark, Michi Meko, Khalilah Birdsong, Hasani Sahlehe, Jon Moody, Cheryl Fox, Morel Doucet and Tracy Guiteau.
All Gallery Photographs: De’Angelo McNair for EBONY.
