Angela Hennessy contends with the universal experiences of life, death, love, and belonging mediated through Blackness— as a personal and lived experience, an ancestral lineage, and a

historical construction. Hennessy’s abstract sculptures employ materials indicative of Black women’s self-care and joy but also expressions of their grief and sorrow. Made entirely of hair, both real and artificial, Body for a Black Moon bears material witness to Hennessy’s impulse to look to the skies for origin and orientation and to offer new prisms through which to examine our relationships and the universe we are a part of, from the celestial to the mundane and all that exists in between.