Surviving the Burn: Room to Breathe
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville is excited to present Surviving the Burn: Room to Breathe, our next exhibition by Durham-based multidisciplinary artist Derrick Beasley. The exhibition explores a speculative future shaped by a reframed Black masculinity – one that exists in a deep, reciprocal relationship with the non-human world. Spanning painting, sculpture, photography and film, Beasley maps a future where people have embraced ways of being that challenge expected ideas of survival and identity. The exhibition asks – and answers – who survives “the burn” – and how communities adapt, resist, and thrive in its aftermath. Room to Breathe is informed by histories and fictions of fugitivity and marronage, particularly within North Carolina and other wetland geographies.