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Syntropy: Helina Metaferia: Solo exhibition

Past exhibition
21 November - 20 December 2025
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Helina Metaferia, Enthroned (Today I feel I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress), 2025 Image courtesy of the artist and Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Helina Metaferia, Enthroned (Today I feel I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress), 2025 Image courtesy of the artist and Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Helina Metaferia, Enthroned (Today I feel I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress), 2025 Image courtesy of the artist and Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Helina Metaferia, Enthroned (Today I feel I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress), 2025 Image courtesy of the artist and Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Helina Metaferia, Enthroned (Today I feel I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress), 2025 Image courtesy of the artist and Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Helina Metaferia, Enthroned (Today I feel I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress), 2025 Image courtesy of the artist and Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Helina Metaferia, Enthroned (Today I feel I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress), 2025 Image courtesy of the artist and Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Helina Metaferia, Enthroned (Today I feel I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress), 2025 Image courtesy of the artist and Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Helina Metaferia, Enthroned (Today I feel I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress), 2025 Image by Dan Watkins Photography, courtesy Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Helina Metaferia, Enthroned (Today I feel I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress), 2025 Image by Dan Watkins Photography, courtesy Praise Shadows Art Gallery

Helina Metaferia

Enthroned (Today I feel I am an institution; I am an altar; I am an artwork in/of/for progress), 2025
Hand cut and assembled mixed media collage
74 x 50 inches framed
HM104
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Helina Metaferia, Headdress 73, 2024
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Helina Metaferia, Headdress 73, 2024
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Helina Metaferia, Headdress 73, 2024
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Helina Metaferia, Headdress 73, 2024
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) Helina Metaferia, Headdress 73, 2024
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) Helina Metaferia, Headdress 73, 2024
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 7 ) Helina Metaferia, Headdress 73, 2024
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 8 ) Helina Metaferia, Headdress 73, 2024
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 9 ) Helina Metaferia, Headdress 73, 2024
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 10 ) Helina Metaferia, Headdress 73, 2024
Bibliography: Newark Public Library’s Atno Smith & Kim Singleton Collection • Pages from The Black Panther Newspaper, “African Liberation Day”, June 3rd, 1972. Michigan State University Library Special Collections...
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Bibliography:

Newark Public Library’s Atno Smith & Kim Singleton Collection

• Pages from The Black Panther Newspaper, “African Liberation Day”, June 3rd, 1972.

Michigan State University Library Special Collections

• Page from The Black Panther Newspaper, “Algiers. Black Panther at Pan-African Cultural Festival,” August 9, 1969.

• Page from The Black Panther Newspaper, “Son of Man Temple, Mother’s Day Celebration,” May 12, 1974.

Northeastern University Library Special Collections

• Eubanks, Musa, Cover from Africa’s Past – Impact on our Present, 1976.

• Gittens, Bob, Images from Onyx, August, 1973.

• Protest sign “Black Feminism (backside of Maya Angelou quote),” 2017.

• Protest sign “Fan this Spark,” 2017.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs, and Prints Division

• Unknown photographer, “A group of Negroes dressed in African Attire Pickets in Front of Intermediate School 201 in East Harlem, Demanding that African American History be Taught in the School.” September 13, 1966.

• Unknown photographer, ”BX NAACP Supports This, LEVINE Must Go,” 1950.

• Unknown photographer, “Delegates from the National Association of Colored Women

• Picketing the White House to Protest the Lynchings of African Americans,” July 1946.

• Unknown photographer, “Free Huey Rally in Defremery Park, Oakland,” 1968.

• Unknown photographer, “Like I mean man, justice!" undated.

• Unknown photographer, “Participants of the Memphis Garbage Workers Protest March,” 1968.

• Unknown photographer, “Picketing Dept of Welfare,” August 1949.

• Unknown photographer, “Picketing Grants,” April 27, 1954.

• Unknown photographer, “Preparing Picket Line Outside CORE Sit-in Demonstration at Monterey Highlands,” undated.

Photographs from Helina Metaferia’s family archive.


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Syntropy. 21 Nov.-20 Dec. 2025, Praise Shadows Art Galley, Brookline, MA.
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