Entwined: Ritual Wrapping and Binding in Contemporary Southern Art

Across history, various cultures—including Haitian Voudou, Appalachian broom-making, Calabrian silk production, Peruvian rope coiling, and Congo Nkisi—have built aesthetic and symbolic traditions around the ritual practice of wrapping and binding. In Entwined, contemporary artists engage with this tradition in various mediums and approaches. Through wrapping, painting, weaving, coiling, drawing, or knotting, each artists binds their own unique and thoroughly contemporary vision to this ancient, universal, and very human practice. The exhibit will feature works by: Friendswood Brooms, Jeffrey Cook, Sonya Yong James, Susan Jamison, Sharon Kopriva, Kristin Meyers, Susan Plum, Ashley Pridmore, Elizabeth Shannon, Ed Williford, and Sarah Zapata. View the exhibition virtually at ogdenmuseum.org.