Exhibition Statement:

The development of physical and social spaces (or lack there of) give objective resonance to identity and persona based of the relationship between occupancy and landscape. This exhibition explores the way black people and people of color take up space generationally, as natives and foreigners. These works accompany sound, reflecting movement and experience with mobilizing the imagined self in the collective. Some will share the narratives of displacement or the fragility of being upwardly mobile. Others will show the evolution of their cultures as they’ve been curated to take up space in the socio-industrial complexes. whether it’s the joy of sharing space in an apartment complex, nation, or a suburb, Whether it's securing more capital from a cultural streamline or creating a new landscape, we all wear our socialized personas to represent locale through imagery. We all share space and coexist at different angles, but it’s important we archive the multifaceted experiences with the internalization of our disposition. we must narrate our own vanity because they leave a lot of stuff out when they tell it. When you see us, we are the embodiment of location.

Co-Curator

Yashira Lopez Davalos

(Yashi Davalos) b.1995 is an emerging artist and curator. Her upbringing as an Afro Latinx Atlanta native transcends her relationship between the south and global south. In her practice, her perception of hyper-capitalism focuses on tokenism vs. non-monolithic aspects of identity. Yashira’s objective as a curator is to build conversations, with intersections included because they leave out a lot of stuff when they tell it. Her past curations include The Echolocation Series, Past, Present, and Afro-Futurism at The Front Gallery, and serving as the Gallery Curator for The Front's Donde Se Despierta Mi Risa Latinx Group show.

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