Kyra-Sky Foster is one of three Platform Graduate Award artists showing their work at Modern Art Oxford this year. Through her work, she investigates the connections between the astronomical phenomenon of the black hole, and the black experience.
The barrel filled with molasses described in the video below is part of an installation in her exhibition Black Hole as Metaphor, on display in our Creative Space until Sunday 16 October 2022.
“Molasses plays a key role in this work, it acts as a tether between the observer and my family’s black experience. As the viewer peers into the sweet slick barrel’s interior they are forced to confront their own distorted reflection. This references both the viewers own place within the experience, and the spaghettification (stretching of the body falling into a black hole) that they would experience.” – Kyra-Sky Foster
Visit Kyra-Sky Foster: Black Hole as Metaphor until 16 October 2022. The Platform Graduate Award exhibition series runs until 30 October 2022.