Hannah Traore Gallery

About the Gallery
Hannah Traore Gallery is a space committed to advocating for and celebrating artists who have been historically marginalized from the mainstream narrative. HTG is building a path forward to share their extraordinary visions with the world. The gallery exhibits artists from all around the world, selected based on their exceptional talent and distinctive voice. 

Understanding that art is in constant dialogue with design, fashion, media, and the ever-changing world around us, HTG is dedicated to broadening the notion of what is deemed appropriate for the gallery setting. In doing so, HTG aims to engage both novice and experienced audiences in new ways

The gallery and its exhibiting artists have been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, W Magazine, V Magazine, Frieze, Forbes, Cultured, Wallpaper, The Art Newspaper, Artsy, ARTnews, Document Journal, DAZED, Galerie Magazine, and more.

About the Presentation
Hannah Traore Gallery will present Weightlessness Training TK: a continuation of Turiya Adkins’ evolving series exploring running and flight as expressions of her African ancestry and family’s legacy through histories including the Great Migration, Black athletes in track and field, the Tuskegee Airmen, and James Meredith’s 1966 March Against Fear. Pursuing her personal “march against fear” further in this body of work, she transitions her subject to flight and freefall—a suspended motion that illustrates a conceptual gap, a peak at which it is possible to measure how far one has come and a moment in which fear is experienced rather than identified. Adkins’ fall is one that offers open interpretations of how fear and desire inform one another. Her departure from the land to the sky reaches all the way to space, where she gathers Afrofuturist queues from Sun Ra’s experimental jazz track “Astro Black” to the story of the Zambian Space Program and the concept of cosmic salvation. Across these references recurs a question of the potential of our individual and collective mythologies to, as Sun Ra described in a 1965 interview, “[permit] man to situate himself in these times and to connect himself with the past and the future. What I’m looking for are the myths of the future, the destiny of man… I believe that if one wants to act on the destiny of the world, it’s necessary to treat it like a myth.”