Ayana Evans: Nobody’s Gonna Love You the Way I Do
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents Ayana Evans: Nobody’s Gonna Love You the Way I Do on Friday, September 11th!
Ayana Evans: Nobody’s Gonna Love You the Way I Do is the first museum survey exhibition of work by Brooklyn-based artist and performer Ayana Evans. Celebrating Evans’s dedication to live arts, the exhibition brings together new and recent videos, ephemera, live performances, and events that invite audience participation.
Originally trained as a painter, Evans has established an unapologetic and emotionally invigorating voice as a performance artist over the last two decades. Questioning social hierarchies and inequities through her work, she creates and protects spaces where people can be their most authentic selves.
Nobody’s Gonna Love You the Way I Do includes documentation of works that span decades of Evans’s creative process: videos of guerilla performances presented on New York City streets; works staged for audiences in Venice, Michigan, and Montreal; and ephemera including a sign that reads, “I JUST CAME HERE TO FIND A HUSBAND,” which Evans has worn serially in public appearances.
