Exhibition Preview - Bury Me Deep: Mouminatou Thiaw

BURY ME DEEP
Special Preview: March 13th, 6-9pm

Open Reception: March 19th, 6-9pm  

BOTH FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The Forge Nashville 217 Willow St Nashville TN 37210

On view through April 4th, 2026

The Forge Nashville presents Bury Me Deep, a new exhibition by Senegalese-American artist Mouminatou Thiaw, on view March 13 through April 4, 2026. Through an impressionistic series of works, Thiaw expresses a somatic ecosystem of the earth, body and spirit, employing bold, contrasting colors and organic forms to explore emotional coexistence, healing, and interconnection.

The exhibition features acrylic painting, clay sculpture and block print, centering on vivid chromatic tensions that evoke the layered emotional states held within the body. Throughout the work, organ-like forms emerge as mystical and visceral sites of knowledge, suggesting the body as an intuitive, interconnected system. The resulting visual language invites viewers into a contemplative space where sensation, memory, and embodiment converge.

The title piece, Bury Me Deep, envisions a metaphysical space of deep hibernation, where reflection, grief, imagination, and digestion of experience are generative. The stitched edge that appears across the collection is a symbolically repairative act of the artist to mend what was cut. The red thread suggests healing, forgiveness, repair where there was rupture. It plays within the artist’s broader inquiries into strength through transformation, and where human touch can be symbiotic not only destructive.

Thiaw’s handling of clay and fossil-like forms similarly emphasizes gentle intervention, using a touch that favors care, preservation, and slow transformation and often keeping the natural pigment of the clays.

See you at the show!