Exhibition Catalog for ISAAC SCOTT: MOUROS, September 16 - October 14, 2023 at Lucy Lacoste Gallery.
Traveling through Portugal, during a 2022 artist residency, Scott became aware of the country’s connection to the origins of the Slave Trade. He also learned that many of the Moors who ruled the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages were Black Muslims, a fact used by the Portuguese as a justification of the Slave Trade. In response to this, the artist created MOUROS, a series of ceramic heads and photographs that tell the stories of the peoples of West African descent.
