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YATTA: Iron + Palm Wine - Art Omi

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Newmark Gallery, Art Omi
Nov 15, 2025 → Feb 1, 2026
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Iron + Palm Wine is a solo exhibition from artist and musician YATTA which uses video, sound, digital collage, and a series of original interviews to reimagine the pastoral as a site of reckoning, rather than escape. The show is framed by the music of renowned Sierra Leonean guitarist S. E. Rogie, a pioneer of palm wine music and YATTA's great uncle.

  • On view from November 15, 2025 through February 1, 2026 in the Newmark Gallery

YATTA is a Sierra Leonean-American artist and composer whose work spans experimental music, performance, installation, sculpture and sound art. Their music blends textural electronic elements, looped vocals, and rich storytelling, rooted in improvisation, humor, and surprise. A recent MFA graduate from Bard College and a former artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works and Flux Factory, they continue to explore sound as a medium for storytelling, identity, and transformation.

Art Omi's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Major support for this exhibition is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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The exhibition explores West African guitar music, particularly palm wine music, as a lens to examine notions of nature, leisure, and wandering, positioning Black wandering and West African musical traditions as reckonings with colonial pastoral mythology and the historical trauma of the transatlantic slave trade.

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