A Practice of Openness to Encounter
UUBUNTU TO THE WORLD
Mission
Ubuntu Fine Art Gallery exists to provide a temporary sanctuary from a world that does not always honor our shared humanity, and in this sanctuary, to make encounter and inquiry possible. What was freely given to Steven CW Taylor is freely given in return, in his practice of Openness to Encounter. Founded in Philadelphia in 2021, the gallery operates as a free, civic institution founded on the conviction that humans deserve dignity at an infrastructure level, a space where the community holds the right to be present without paying admission, without performing gratitude, and without requiring permission. At Ubuntu Fine Art, free access to beauty is the form that dignity takes.
Vision
What possibilities could an experience hold? Stories told through the photographic image and narrated to the visitor by the image maker, the practitioner as space maker, the curious explorer bringing global inquiries back. Are there not inquiries that could arise when global experiences are shared within accessible reach of community? Inquiries that may have never risen to the surface had the world not been brought, freely, to meet it.