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Title:	Fahamu Pecou: This Face Behind This Mask Behind This Skin
Date:	10/10/2025 - 1/4/2026
Address:	Frist Art Museum, 919 Broadway – Downtown, Nashville, TN 37203
Location:	Nashville, TN
Hours:	Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays: 10:00am – 5:30pm / Sundays: 1:00pm – 5:30pm / Thursdays: 10:00am – 8:00pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $20
Web Page:	https://fristartmuseum.org/exhibition/fahamu-pecou/
Contact Info:	615.244.3340

Details:

This Face Behind This Mask Behind This Skin invokes an ontological urgency and reads with a mantric rhythm. This exhibition features the work of Dr. Fahamu Pecou, bringing together his recent series End of Safety, Real Negus Don’t Die, and We Didn’t Realize We Were Seeds and debuting a multichannel video installation featuring his short Afro-Surrealist film The Store. End of Safety examines how cultural hegemony has shaped Black American identity, suggesting it is often imposed rather than self-defined. Pecou explores the tension between the imposition of Blackness and the comfort that arises from it. He confronts the idea of stepping beyond that comfort—imagining the delicate, dangerous, and necessary act of seeing ourselves free from the stories the world imposes. Real Negus Don’t Die, begun in 2013, is an evolving tribute to iconic African American figures whose lives and legacies shape the rhythm and resonance of Black cultural identity. At the heart of this series lies the word negus, an Ethiopian word meaning king, offered here as a nonbinary term underscoring royalty.