Artist and curator Glenn Sujo was born in Argentina and now lives in London. He is a founding member of the Faculty of the Prince’s Drawing School. Since his first solo exhibition, Histories, in 1982, Sujo’s many exhibitions have included Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory (Imperial War Museum, London, 2001). His work is found in many collections, including the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On a forgone and alien diaspora night,
Far, far in the midst of childhood,
A heavy bottomless darkness closed upon me,
Surrounding me in fear and horror.
Somewhere in Yemen in the district of…
This printed amulet to protect a woman in childbirth features a central scene depicting Adam and Eve and several animals in the Garden of Eden, with a snake coiled around the forbidden “tree of…