Tau Lewis is a young, self-taught Jamaican-Canadian artist, whose practice raises questions about personal and collective racial trauma. Her organic sculptures made from found and repurposed materials – fabric, industrial scrap and found objects – challenge the materiality of things and resonate with the experience of the black diaspora. In her “Soft Portraits” series that she began in 2017, Tau Lewis presents complex, textured and colourful hand-sewn creations with faces, feet and hands constructed out of plaster. These imaginary characters, sometimes sitting, sometimes lying down, explore the power of recovery and suggest a new historical narrative.
Courtesy Tau Lewis and Cooper Cole.
