Vamba Bility is a multidisciplinary artist whose work echoes the diasporic experience. Bility perceives the intimacy of this contested space of diaspora as a blur. In his hands, this blurred sensibility becomes a fluid movement that draws on various material histories. He expresses the reverberating motions of his existence by leaning on and weaving together mediums and materials like painting, textiles, found objects, and sound. A cracked calabash gets sewn together. A torn canvas gets stitched as a salve. A painting is propped up by a brick or two. All of this is a form of mark making that structures the landscape of diaspora as a material residue of atmosphere, of feeling, of process. Bility threads this through a shared poesis—a bringing forth, a revelation—that sketches out an architecture of what it means to be. 
At the Hammer Museum, Bility presents an array of objects, staging an aesthetic encounter that breathes life into these self-referential sketches of diasporic living. Yet a question persists for audiences: what is unfolding in this space, in this moment? He structures the exhibition after the bustling bazaar—a dynamic space teeming with systems of exchange that produce, use, and reuse commercial materials like spools of yarn, bags of kola nuts, planks of wood, metal chains, and swaths of canvas. The resulting sculptures and paintings engage in a dialogue with the material concerns of several avant-garde practices of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Italian arte povera movement and the West African sensibilities and strategies of Vohou-Vohou and récupération. To varying degrees, these ways of object making intentionally flatten the distinctions between local, imported, industrial, and natural materials, while also expanding the perceptual and sensual dimensions of experience beyond simply vision. 
The horizontal ethic embedded in Bility’s mark-making process informs how we grapple with painting traditions, sculptural forms, and the cathedral-like architecture of the Hammer’s Vault Gallery. Consider the calabash gourds roughly cemented onto the gallery walls, decisively rounding out and echoing the curvature of the semicircular apse. Notice the carbon char, a residue of burnt wood, offering tangible evidence of a painterly act. Observe how the softly muted, scumbled oil washes distract from and draw attention to the gashes on the canvas. These probing layers of depth and texture, while partially serendipitous, function as a commentary on disobeying the disciplines of painting and sculpture in pursuit of a syntax of diasporic movement. Bility initiates this process of renaming through fragments that fall in and out of thought, form, materiality, and tradition. How does one pick up these pieces?

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