Montague Contemporary is pleased to announce Second Sight, a group exhibition of work by Delano Dunn, Miska Mohmmed, Dina Nur Satti, Elias Mung'ora, Birhane Worede, and Wole Lagunju, opening May 23, 2026, at N° 2 Main, the gallery's artist residency in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
The exhibition is installed not in a conventional gallery setting but throughout the rooms and walls of the residency itself—encountered in natural light, in intimate domestic spaces, in the way art is meant to be lived with. Taken together, the six artists' practices—spanning painting, ceramics, collage, and drawing—form a conversation about what it means to carry more than one world inside you, and what you see that others cannot.
The exhibition takes its premise from the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, who was born in the neighboring town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Du Bois described the condition of double consciousness—"this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others"—as both a burden and the source of a rare gift: second sight, the capacity to perceive what those who have never been othered cannot. He described himself as "a seventh son, born with a veil"—drawing on a tradition, shared across African, African American, and European cultures, in which those born at the threshold between worlds are marked for a particular kind of perception.
Second Sight does not treat Du Bois's framework as historical artifact. The six artists in this exhibition—working across ceramics, painting, collage, and drawing—carry his questions into the present: What does it mean to carry more than one world inside you? What do you see that others cannot?
The exhibition is installed not in a conventional gallery setting but throughout the rooms and walls of the residency itself—encountered in natural light, in intimate domestic spaces, in the way art is meant to be lived with. Taken together, the six artists' practices—spanning painting, ceramics, collage, and drawing—form a conversation about what it means to carry more than one world inside you, and what you see that others cannot.
The exhibition takes its premise from the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, who was born in the neighboring town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Du Bois described the condition of double consciousness—"this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others"—as both a burden and the source of a rare gift: second sight, the capacity to perceive what those who have never been othered cannot. He described himself as "a seventh son, born with a veil"—drawing on a tradition, shared across African, African American, and European cultures, in which those born at the threshold between worlds are marked for a particular kind of perception.
Second Sight does not treat Du Bois's framework as historical artifact. The six artists in this exhibition—working across ceramics, painting, collage, and drawing—carry his questions into the present: What does it mean to carry more than one world inside you? What do you see that others cannot?
