Mikael Owunna, ‘The Resurrection of Eke-Nnechukwu,’ 2021, on view as part of ‘Unbound: Art, Blackness and the Universe’ at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. (© Mikael Owunna, courtesy of the artist)

We walk among giants. Paragons whose vision rises above the Earth, and whose example lifts us with them, toward a freer tomorrow.

Unbound: Art, Blackness and the Universe , a new exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), is physically confined by four walls. But its central proposal goes like this: What if humankind could release itself from terrestrial limitations — and in the process, transcend religion, technology and myth as well?

It may seem like a heady concept. But the first exhibition at the newly reopened MoAD, which spent six months closed for

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