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We are pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Esiri Erheriene-Essi at our gallery in Brussels. The paintings in Mother Tongue are a continuation of her ongoing exploration and celebration of the everyday stories and ordinary moments, the untold, often forgotten, and even neglected narratives of people of the African diaspora.

Building on her previous series The Future Isn't What It Used to Be (2021) and Rememory (2022), these works make use of Black vernacular photography as source images. Erheriene-Essi primarily uses instamatic photographs from the 1950s through the 1980s as …