Plato is proud to present Threaded Blue, a solo exhibition of New Jersey-based multidisciplinary artist Diana Sinclair. In her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Diana Sinclair presents a meditation on water, memory and the psychic and physical effects of the transatlantic passage. Working with cyanotypes on fabric, as well as with sculpture, Sinclair is dedicated to experimenting with materials. She merges historical research and personal experience, weaving together studio portraiture and archival fragments to reflect on the longstanding—and often ruptured—relationship between Black communities and water. For Sinclair, water is a charged site of disconnection, grief and potential repair. Having spent seven years as a competitive swimmer while feeling unseen within that space, she returns to water as a site for ancestral veneration and healing. She asks what it means to be alienated from life’s most vital resource, and what it might take to return.
