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    Just openedKeisha Scarville: Where Salt Meets Black WaterThrough October 4

    Illustration for Just openedKeisha Scarville: Where Salt Meets Black WaterThrough October 4

    May 28 – December 31, 2026

    Brooklyn Museum

    200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    Live event at Brooklyn Museum

    About Keisha Scarville: Where Salt Meets Black Water

    At the Brooklyn Museum, Keisha Scarville: Where Salt Meets Black Water presents Scarville’s photo-based practice as an exhibition rooted in memory, migration, and the afterlives of family history. Moving between staged portraiture and quieter documentary traces, the work treats the body and domestic materials as evidence, not ornament. In a city shaped by Caribbean and diasporic life, its New York showing lands as a local cultural marker even without a formal “premiere” claim. The exhibition’s strength is its refusal to tidy grief into narrative closure.

    About the Artist

    Keisha Scarville

    Keisha Scarville is an artist whose work moves between photography, installation, and performance, often using the body and the archive as material. Her projects draw on Caribbean diasporic memory and the everyday labor of looking, with images that feel staged and documentary at once.