Empathy as a Birthing Place

Empathy as a Birthing Place is a group exhibition featuring work by Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Matthew David Rahming, Heino Schmid, and Maxwell Taylor. The exhibition considers the Black Bahamian woman as an icon of society, inviting viewers to see her experience as intricately connected with the social, cultural, and environmental realities of The Bahamas.

Across the exhibition, the woman is rendered as mother, wife, migrant, and nature itself, marked by precarity and tension, but also resilience and joy. Through these different representations, the exhibition honours the specificity of the Black Bahamian woman’s experience alongside the shared humanity it reflects, and argues that empathy is a starting point for understanding and collective advancement. Featuring contemporary Bahamian printmaking and drawing practices, Empathy as a Birthing Place looks at womanhood through this act of witnessing and recognition.