Wall Space Gallery is proud to announce that Ancestry by Stanley Wany was collected by the Canada Art Bank for the Art Bank’s 50th anniversary celebrations! Ancestry was one of 72 new artworks from across Canada acquired for the collection.
“This work is inspired by Gustave Klimt The Three Ages of Woman (1905). Instead of focusing on age and beauty, Ancestry speaks of intergenerational trauma and
representations of black women in the past century. In the perceived beauty of a Black woman can be read an entire history of debasement, struggle and resistance. The superposition of figurativeart and abstractart here questions the notion of struggle as monolithic. Can one really pinpoint any event that defines our lives or who we are?” - Stanley Wany
