Exhibit: Ancestral Whispers

Ancestral Whispers is a site-specific work by Prospect Park Alliance’s first Reimagine Lefferts Artist in Residence Adama Delphine Fawundu, which honors the heroism and lives of Africans enslaved by the Lefferts family. The installation features 25 screen-printed fabric banners that transform the house’s Flatbush Avenue facade, representing the 25 enslaved Africans discovered to date through original research and scholarship. Fawundu is a lifelong Brooklynite, photographer and visual artist whose work centers around themes of indigenization and ancestral memory, which earned her a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship.