HOT PLATE: Soup Pt VIII - The Skin I’m In by Maya Davis - Stokes
Wolverhampton Arts Centre
Private view Thursday 17th December 5:30pm - 7pm
Open 10:30am-4:30pm until 20/12
Concluding her Hot Plate: Soup PtVIII residency at our Minerva Works gallery in Digbeth, Stryx is now proud to present Maya’s solo exhibition at the Wolverhampton Arts Centre in December, with the Skin I’m In.
Maya explains: ‘The skin I'm in is where I inhabit, the skin is delicate and vulnerable. When I was younger I developed a thick skin, impermeable to the words of those who could not understand my differences. As I grew the skin stretched to cover me, it grew with me thick and resilient yet still with weakness. I became unwell, the skin holding infection and trauma altered my being permanently, leaving me with chronic conditions. As I lie in bed pacing my life people are still judging my differences, expecting me to justify conflicts outside of my doing. Despising my ethnic background yet apparently accepting of all others. I see mirroring around between past and present and hope for a better future inhabiting this skin.’