Echolocation: Industrialized Persona
May 13th - June 4th, 2023
exhibiting artists:
Timothy Short (Atlanta, GA), B Carrie-Yvonne (Atlanta, GA), Kimberly Ha (New Orleans, LA), Candace Caston (Atlanta, GA) Rita Harper (New Orleans, LA), Jacq Pierre Francois (New Orleans, LA), Karen Graffeo (Atlanta, GA)
curated by
Yashi Davalos and John Alleyne
The Front Gallery
New Orleans, LA
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.











Gallery 1
Gallery 2
exploring the relationship between subject and their occupancy of physical landscape.
Exploring the relationship between grief/ remberence, spirituality & vanity in the collective.
This gallery room relocates the relationship to the mother, and transcends self imaging and the spirit of the industrialized persona into glamour.







