From our friend, Ty Davis, Curator of GODBODY: THE FEMME at Summerville’s Public Works Arts Center …

GODBODY: THE FEMME is a group exhibition that centers Black Women as powerful carriers of divinity and continual transformation. Through painting, mixed media, photography, and installation, this exhibition positions Black Women as active, sovereign, forces; complex, self-determined and fully in command of their own narratives. The exhibition gathers artists whose practices confront the many ways Black Women are simultaneously revered, policed, exploited, and politicized. The works move between deep tenderness and unapologetic defiance, engaging themes of gender, class, spirituality, and survival.

Firmly rooted in Black cultural thought and lived reality, GODBODY rejects any false divide between the sacred and the everyday. Here, presence itself becomes altar and archive.

Pleasure exists alongside grief, labor alongside intimacy, each asserting the undeniable right to self-authorship in a world that so often tries to deny it.

“GODBODY: THE FEMME is about reclaiming full authority over how Black Women are seen, valued, remembered,” says artist and curator Ty Davis. “It asks what becomes possible when Black Women are placed at the center.”

This exhibition continues Davis’s curatorial commitment to work that challenges social structures while remaining deeply personal, placing equal weight on clarity, material honesty, and rigorous conceptual depth.

Featured Artists

Kela, Samira, Kanish, Kalah, Jada, Tiana, Nathalie, Kei, Denise, Antonette, Christine, Skigh, Desiree, and Barinwa

GODBODY: THE FEMME

May 20th-July 11th

Public Works Art Center, West Gallery

135 West Richardson Ave
Summerville, SC 29483

For more information, please contact

Ty@TiguereContemporary.com