Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
We Meet in a Patchwork: Landscapes and Elsewheres
In the following collaborative text, Makshya Tolbert and DJ Hellerman weave a patchwork of shared curiosity and mutual enchantment while physically re/situating themselves within the American Southeast. At the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Tolbert and Hellerman’s bodies and spirits converge, diverge, expand.
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse
Growing up in Decatur, IL, meant that the hip-hop which influenced me was a combination of art and artists from...