from which we rise
opening reception on May 13 from 5-8pm
Saturdays, May 13 – June 19, 2017
Curated by Satpreet Kahlon
Project Diana: Charlotte Zhang
Writer-in-residence: afrose fatima ahmed
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A collection of 15 pieces made by 15 different artists from 7 families - exploring the legacy of fiber, matriarchal tradition, and craft through intergenerational connectedness.
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Exhibitors:
Nazha Barakat
Nicole Barakat (Sydney, Australia)
Sónia Barreiro (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Pat Courtney-Gold
Lubna Din (London, UK)
Shafqat Din
Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (Portland, OR)
Tsang Miu Guen
Kulwinder Kahlon (Victorville, CA)
Manjit Kaur (Amritsar, Punjab, India)
Caroline Mak (Brooklyn, NY)
Beverly O’Mara
Markel Uriul (Seattle, WA)
Reverand Miyeko Kawata Uriu
For this intergenerational exhibition, Alice curator Satpreet Kahlon asked seven contemporary artists to create new work that explores the artists’ family legacies, as they are tied to fiber and craft. To assemble a more complete picture of familial history, each artist selected a piece of traditional fiber-based work done by a matriarch in their family and created a new work in response to that piece.
What results is a 15-person group show that pairs and recontextualizes new, contemporary works with older works that are often labeled as craft, and therefore devalued when viewed through a traditional, patriarchal white lens. By tracing family lineage and cultural survival through textiles, from which we rise hopes to distrupt and call into question the gendered, racialized, and often arbitrary distinctions between art and craft that are rooted in the colonial gaze.
By giving the artists in the show a chance to dictate and narrate their own connections to their cultural legacy, the show hopes to shift the traditional power balance that exists between curator and artist, and broaden the often narrow, tokenizing and one-dimensional, narrative about non-Eurocentric intergenerational exchange that takes place in traditional white box spaces.
What results is a 15-person group show that pairs and recontextualizes new, contemporary works with older works that are often labeled as craft, and therefore devalued when viewed through a traditional, patriarchal white lens. By tracing family lineage and cultural survival through textiles, from which we rise hopes to distrupt and call into question the gendered, racialized, and often arbitrary distinctions between art and craft that are rooted in the colonial gaze.
By giving the artists in the show a chance to dictate and narrate their own connections to their cultural legacy, the show hopes to shift the traditional power balance that exists between curator and artist, and broaden the often narrow, tokenizing and one-dimensional, narrative about non-Eurocentric intergenerational exchange that takes place in traditional white box spaces.
