Summary

Esmaa Mohamoud explores the fragility of innocence and the soul in What Does Webster’s Say About Soul? , now on view at Roberts Projects in Los Angeles

Featuring five new shea butter and black granite sculptures, the show hones in on themes of mortality, sacredness and the precarity of existence through the lens of Black youth

At Roberts Projects in Los Angeles, Esmaa Mohamoud probes into the injured soul. What Does Webster’s Say About Soul? , titled after a line in Gil Scott-Heron’s 1970 spoken word track “Comment #1”, moves through questions of harm, injustice and endurance through the interiority of Black youth as they confront the theft of innocence and the precarity of their own existence.

Building on a body conceptual interventions into Black visual culture — be i

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