{"id":5049438,"date":"2025-08-05T17:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_event&p=5049438"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:01:44","slug":"love-in-excess-featuring-martinican-artist-gwladys-gambie","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/love-in-excess-featuring-martinican-artist-gwladys-gambie\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLove in Excess\u201d, Featuring Martinican Artist Gwladys Gambie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the ballad \u201cLove in Excess,\u201d Black Caribbean singer Ophelia Marie declares her longing for a love that is at once sensuous and ineffable, carnal and otherworldly\u2014a love so great that, as the song\u2019s chorus announces, it could only be fulfilled by an angel. Borrowing its title from Marie\u2019s love anthem, Love in Excess<\/em> brings together ten Black women and Black queer artists whose works echo the singer\u2019s yearning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The form of love examined in the exhibition has been explored for millennia by philosophers, poets, and artists, and has been described as the lover\u2019s act of reaching for an inherently absent other\u2014a gesture inhabited by both pain and pleasure. While this acute yearning traditionally evokes notions of erotic desire between people, thinkers have also linked it to the longing for alternative social realities, as well as for the divine. This broader understanding reveals longing as an affect that is simultaneously bodily, spiritual, and political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anchored in both conceptual inquiry and embodied experience, the artists featured in Love in Excess <\/em>grapple with this affect in the face of the complex intersections of gender, race, and sexuality. From the perspective of Black queerness and Black femininity, they employ various media to mine loneliness, loss, failure, absence, and longing, as well as the pain and pleasure that reflect their felt experience as both subjects and objects of love and desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured artists include Gwladys Gambie, L\u00eddia Lisboa, Ophelia Marie, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Tatiana Nascimento, Ode, Madelynn Poulson, Katherine Sim\u00f3ne Reynolds, Ntozake Shange, Cauleen Smith, and D’Angelo Lovell Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love in Excess\u00a0<\/em>is curated by Maysa Martins, Visual Arts Center 2024\u201326 Curatorial Fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition support for Gwladys Gambie\u2019s participation is provided by Villa Albertine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5049581,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[218],"app_city_tax":[222],"app_event_type":[242],"class_list":["post-5049438","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-visual-arts","app_city_tax-hou","app_event_type-exhibition"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cLove in Excess\u201d, Featuring Martinican Artist Gwladys Gambie - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/love-in-excess-featuring-martinican-artist-gwladys-gambie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cLove in Excess\u201d, Featuring Martinican Artist Gwladys Gambie - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the ballad \u201cLove in Excess,\u201d Black Caribbean singer Ophelia Marie declares her longing for a love that is at once sensuous and ineffable, carnal and otherworldly\u2014a love so great that, as the song\u2019s chorus announces, it could only be fulfilled by an angel. 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