Exhibition by Toussaint J. Miller
Fusion Arts is excited to present Measured Truths: an exhibition by Toussaint J. Miller. This exhibition is showcasing at Fusion Arts in 15 Park End Street from 4-12 June 2026.
In Measured Truths, Toussaint J. Miller presents a new body of ceramic sculptures created to confront the hidden violence within modern medicine's visual culture — and to ask what it means to benefit from a practice built, in part, on subjugation.
Modern medicine presents itself as a discipline oriented above all towards healing. Yet beneath this narrative of progress lies a history that demands reckoning: at the root of modern medicine sits a sustained practice of scientific racism that extracted knowledge from enslaved Black bodies while simultaneously denying those bodies their humanity. This exhibition does not seek to reject medicine's achievements, but to hold them honestly — to reckon with what was taken, and from whom.
The formal vocabulary of the work draws on living sources: the cowrie shell, the wunkirmian sculptures of the Dan peoples, the mosque architecture of Djenné, the 19th-century vessels of David Drake. To invoke them is to affirm what pseudoscientific racial hierarchies worked to obscure — that the Black body has always existed within cultures of profound complexity, creativity, and meaning.
The works vary deliberately in scale — from pieces exceeding five feet to sculptures smaller than thirteen inches. The largest assert a physical presence that refuses comfortable distance; the smallest demand the kind of intimate, close looking that mirrors the clinical scrutiny they interrogate. Each responds to a specific historical case study in which photography, anatomical illustration, and clinical documentation were weaponised to fix the Black body within narratives of racial hierarchy.
About Toussaint J. Miller
Toussaint J. Miller is a multidisciplinary artist working across ceramics, music, and the histories of science and medicine. His ceramic practice interrogates how visual culture shapes narratives of race and medical history. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Miller’s work is grounded in autoethnographic methods, exploring Afrocentric perspectives through lived experience. His practice forms part of a broader inquiry developed through his Masters in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Oxford, examining medical ethics and representations of Black subjects in American medicine. His abstract sculptural forms reframe these histories, foregrounding humanity often obscured within archival records.
