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Tau Lewis, Sparkle’s Map Home (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, Harmony (2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, Harmony (2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, Thumper (Heartbeat of the Sun) (2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, Thumper (Heartbeat of the Sun) (2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, Sparkle’s Map Home (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, Harmony (2) (2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, I heard a heartbeat down in the blackhole (2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, Crystal Rock and Shockwave(2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, Crystal Rock and Shockwave(2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, Sparkle’s Map Home (2020). Exhibition view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, The Octonaut (I can be my own hands to hold)(2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, The Octonaut (I can be my own hands to hold)(2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, Sparkle & Sparkle’s map home(2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.
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Tau Lewis, Sparkle & Sparkle’s map home(2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.

Exploring spiritual imaginaries & a speculative black past & future with the meticulous sculptural works of Tau Lewis

, 18 May 2020

Sparkle’s Map Home, a solo exhibition by Tau Lewis, was on at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville, running January 26 to March 22.

Tau Lewis, Thumper (Heartbeat of the Sun) (2019). Installation view. Photo by Laura Findlay. Image courtesy the artist + Oakville Galleries, Oakville.

Featuring meticulously crafted sculptures pieced together from found materials, the artist creates a speculative imagining of an ancestral site in the cosmos, with a practice that works to heal “personal, collective and historical traumas through labour”. As noted in the press text, “Lewis reflects on the possibilities of outer space as a locus of both a black past and a black future, one where that which is unbound—materially, spiritually and otherwise—is given license to take shape anew.”**

Tau Lewis’ Sparkle’s Map Home, was on at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville, Ontario, running January 26 to March 22, 2020.