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August 04, 2016

Mari at the Museum of Art and Origins

Pamela Love's AW16 Suspension collection is an exploration of traditional and modern elements, playing with sculptural shapes and the movement of suspended objects, as well richly colored stones like lapis and tiger's eye. The film takes place in the Museum of Art and Origins, located in Sugar Hill, Harlem, exploring spiritual boundaries within Sugar Hill and inside the doors of Harlem Renaissance luminaries. The mixture of ancient African artifacts with modernist sculptures in this space echoes Love's latest collection. Suspension plays with the juxtaposition of clean sculptural shapes against more archetypal, historical ones. Using techniques both ancient and innovative, she creates a rich and colorful collection that looks forward while embracing that which is classic. The film, shot by Rebecca Fourteau, features muse Mari Guidicelli, and was completed with the help of creative collaborator Cassi A. Gibson, and photographer Andres Altamirano.

Hand resting on upper arm wearing a large oval silver-toned ring and a curved collar necklace over a ribbed beige sweater

Hand resting on upper arm wearing a large oval silver-toned ring and a curved collar necklace over a ribbed beige sweater

L: Kasai Sculpture

Carved wooden African sculptures and masks displayed on a museum wall

Chokwe

Model wearing layered pendant necklaces and rings, beside a close-up of a bold crescent collar necklace draped on a statue's arm

R: Afro Brasilia contemporary artist. Unknown.

Woman touching a red-and-black sculpture while wearing layered pendant necklaces, large hoop earrings, a bracelet, and multiple rings

Tchi Wara for Lord Ogun by Emanoel Araújo

Model wearing multiple rings and drop earrings in two portraits: left standing indoors, right close-up of hands at face

Mande (West Atlantic) Kran people, NE Liberia

Model standing with arms crossed wearing multiple rings and a pendant necklace in front of a bookshelf

Kurt Thometz rare book dealer, private library

Dangling earrings with round dark bezel tops and three thin vertical bar drops, worn on the earlobe, shown in profile

Mande sculpture

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