Music, Arts & Culture
Through film, mixed media, ritual, and sculpture, Outlandish highlights water’s importance in BIPOC communities
On a gallery’s walls in downtown San Luis Obispo, the Outlandish exhibit ties almost every creative outlet together to enable gallerygoers to view the importance of water through the lens of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) voices. The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art’s (SLOMA) newest exhibit features April Banks’ works that incorporate film, mixed media, ritual, and sculpture to prompt viewers to ponder the relationship between nature, labor, and leisure. “It really starts to go into the imaginary and the speculative, and I feel like that was intentional because I feel like imagination, dreaming, daydreaming are all methods and mechanisms for change that we often don’t include in conversation,” the artist told the Sun. “So I just wanted to go into the sea of an imaginary world that really challenges things about colonialism.” Outlandish takes inspiration from a previous show Banks worked on with R.A.C.E. Matters SLO called Braiding Water...
