salt 17: Adama Delphine Fawundu
On view through June 14, 2026
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Salt Lake City, Utah
www.umfa.utah.edu
Adama Delphine Fawundu is a New York-based artist of Mende, Krim, Bamileke, and Bubi descent. Her practice embodies ancestral memory across space and time, reconnecting places, objects, plants, animals, and spirits of the global African diaspora.
Find out more here: https://umfa.utah.edu/exh…/salt-17-adama-delphine-fawundu/
[Image: Adama Delphine Fawundum, American, born 1971, Simba #1: feet grounded in the earth’s deep core, head crouned by a galaxy of stars–she sees: you are me, I am you, we are countless, yet one, 2025. Archival pigment, cyanotypes, acrylic paint, kalaba (kaolin), and mabele chalk on cotton canvas. Antique quilt from Salt Lake City. Handmade banana leaf with jute pulp paper. Healing herbs, Kuba cloth, and raffia from Congo, Brazil, and Sierra Leone. Copper from Ghana. Salt from the Great Salt Lake. Cobalt blue glass bottles, palm fibers, and calabash from Congo and Brazil. Clay beads from Bahia. Cowrie shells from Brazil, Nigeria, Congo, Sierra Leone Turkey and pheasant feathers. Elements of water, wind, and sunshine from Kinshasa, Congo; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Salt Lake City, Utah; Bahia, Brazil; and Lagos, Nigeria, Courtesy of the artist.]
