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 the beauty of 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, through his practice of An Openness to Encounter, opening ourselves up to the possibility that each encounter provides access to new questions, that allow us to practice the journey without concern of the destination. Founded in Philadelphia in 2021, Ubuntu Fine Art operates as a free publicly accessible civic institution, built 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 communal dignity takes.
Vision
What possibilities could an encounter hold? Stories told through the photographic image and narrated to the visitor by the image maker, the practitioner as space maker, the curious explorer bridging global culture. 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.