UNTITLED,
THE ARMORY
Andrew Reed Gallery at The Armory Show | 2025
For Cornelius Tulloch’s solo presentation at The Armory, the artist traces the history of Marronage in connection to the South Florida Everglades and the Saltwater Railroad: a route to liberation that cut through Florida’s west coast and out across Biscayne Bay, carrying freedom seekers to maroon communities in the Caribbean. In South Florida, Marronage calls to mind Seminole communities, freedmen, and Black and Afro-Indigenous peoples who sought refuge in the state’s natural landscapes—building self-sustaining societies within the wild.
This body of work carries the movement and spirit of masquerade traditions such as Junkanoo, along with other African practices that have traveled through these landscapes, bridging the Caribbean and the U.S. South. It speaks to movement, migration, history, and deep rootedness in place. Dance is explored between landscapes and cultures, creating a borderland where identity is always in motion, always in flux. The figures merge with the environment, becoming a humanoid form intertwined with the flora and terrain of these territories.
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(Images by Zachary Balber, courtesy of Andrew Reed Gallery)