Award-winning sculptor and found-object artist Georges Adéagbo (born in 1942 in Cotonou, Benin) is a virtuoso of site-specific installation, has transformed President Lincoln’s Cottage for a month-long special exhibition titled: Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America (January 17-February 15).
Adéagbo has long been personally intrigued by President Lincoln as an icon of emancipation, and this project will explore Lincoln’s legacy of liberation and creativity. The objects in the exhibit -- including books, newspapers, handwritten notes, and artwork created by a team of artists in Benin -- have relationships with one another, with their creators, and with the space itself. This intersection of relationships becomes the fertile ground for Adéagbo’s unique messaging. The objects themselves cannot be understood outside of this web of meaning, a web that redefines the space and transforms it into a work of art. This process becomes an act of artistic self-liberation.
Notions of identity, African Diasporan heritage, and self-reflection are integral to Adéagbo’s work, which will contribute to a deepening and evolving understanding of place at this important cultural icon.
This special installation three-dimensional vignettes throughout the Cottage comprising sculpture, craft assemblages, found objects, and handcrafted illustrations and signage is offered in collaboration with The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art and Howard University's Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts. It will be open to the public January 17th – February 15th, 2023.
President Lincoln’s Cottage is located on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, DC. While living here for more than a quarter of his presidency, Abraham Lincoln bonded with soldiers and veterans, made crucial decisions about the Civil War, and developed the Emancipation Proclamation. His daily commute put him in regular contact with wounded soldiers and self-emancipated men, women, and children which altered his understanding of the country and the war. Today, the site offers an intimate view of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and private life, and new perspectives on the influential ideas Lincoln developed while living here. Hours of operation: the site is open 362 days a year between the hours of 9:30am and 4:30pm with guided tours on the hour. For more information on President Lincoln’s Cottage, visit: www.lincolncottage.org.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is part of the Smithsonian with a mission to be a 21st-century global African art museum. The museum’s collection of primarily visual arts span across the continent from the 10th century until today. As part of an ongoing and radical revisioning, the museum now also provides dynamic and collaborative art experiences in locations across the continent and throughout global African spaces to nurture regenerative art ecosystems.
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