In ‘Sacred Vessels’, the Orlando-based artist brings body, landscape and ancestral knowledge into intimate conversation, considering how memory survives through material, form and generations.
27 August 2026
What does it mean for the body to become an archive? In ‘Sacred Vessels: Healing and Memory in the Black Diaspora’, Tasanee Durrett turns to the histories held within bodies, landscapes and materials, exploring healing as both an individual and inherited process.
Opening at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center in Winter Park, Florida, the exhibition brings together Durrett’s mixed-media works, which combine abstracted human forms, botanical imagery and architectural structures. Drawing on her architectural background, the artist focuses particularly on the head and neck as sacred vessels through which memory, identity and ancestral knowledge are carried.
Durrett’s material language deepens these connections. Acrylic on linen is layered with raffia, salt and silkworm cocoons, transforming the surface into a space where histories accumulate. Across her practice, the natural world becomes inseparable from questions of psychological restoration, cultural identity and resilience.
Through pointillism, continuous linework and vivid botanical forms, Durrett considers how ancestral knowledge might offer pathways towards contemporary healing. Rather than approaching memory solely through trauma, ‘Sacred Vessels’ asks what can be recovered, protected and carried forward.
This exhibition will be on view at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center Gallery, Winter Park, from 4 September to 13 December 2026.
