Express Newark

Closing Soon: Ritual features work by artists, curators, students, and community members who’ve immersed themselves in nonsecular expressions of spirituality and Islamic traditions across the Muslim world. These works span Newark, which has long been home to one of our nation’s largest African American Muslim communities, while also branching out beyond the domestic borders of the United States to unite members of the global community.

By bridging traditional spiritual practices and aesthetic innovations, these artistic explorations turn towards Muslim interiorities—an often underrepresented perspective in art—to create timely meditations that center art and ritual and inspire new discourses, worldviews, and conversations about belief and identity.

Ritual is on view through July 31st at Express Newark.