"In Atlanta-based artist Radcliffe Bailey’s work, the spatial and temporal upheavals of slavery and colonization are given material shape. Partial human forms—a bust made from a death mask, wooden hands and forearms, a glass heart—emerge from a black backdrop or a white wall. Black ships and African masks and sculptures populate mixed-media collages. These materials do not isolate the slave trade to a moment; instead, they remind the viewer that a world-shaping project coerced people and things into otherwise impossible, still ongoing assemblages."