“ ‘I like to think about our place within the cosmos or the stars. Breaking out of this smallness and the ways in which we’ve been forced to compartmentalize everything,’ she [DeVille] shares thoughtfully. DeVille’s art pushes for liberation and expansive thought. Through urban sculptural interventions and immersive installations, she protects and reclaims lost Black narratives—whether placing smiling plaster casts of her face at her paternal grandfather’s childhood home in Harlem or honoring a centuries-old African burial ground in East Harlem through a debris-sourced sculptural homage.”

Abigail DeVille Illuminates the Majesty of her Hometown by Jasmin Hernandez