Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons), 2024

Rujeko Hockley: Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons) is one of the newest works in the exhibition. “Ecclesia” is another word for a meeting place or church, so there's thinking here about how we come together, about what it means to come together.

Sherald is also very interested in the work of Wes Anderson, the filmmaker, and there are references in this work, particularly in the structure that the figures stand inside, to films of his. The kind of weather vanes on top are unique in each one. There's a dolphin, a whale and a turtle atop each of these structures, and so there's lots of little embedded details, as well as this kind of overarching meaning of how we come together, how we may be able to or not across generations, across time and across space.