IN OUR GALLERY nahs @ yr roots Curated by Naimonu James

About This Show

nahs @ yr roots is a show about succulence, soft things, dewy empresses, iridescence, the soon to be obsolete, the “femme”…digital fractures, incomplete yearnings, sexy snaps, my fourth house, a dream/a preoccupation, gestures and gestures, the beginning, the first iteration, an overture, a call, heresy, a palace, the gnaw and the nope, not gonna.

Featuring works by
Avery Williamson
Eva Wǒ
Rafia Santana
ray ferreira

About the Artists

Naimonu James is a curator based in New York City for now.

Avery Williamson is a Philadelphia-based artist who explores the history of black Americans, specifically women in personal and institutional archives, and examines how gaps in visual, oral and written documentation can inform the storytelling process. Avery graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies.

Eva Wŏ lives deep underwater aka the scorpio abyss of underground emergence and worm. Above the surface she is a mixed race queer femme from new mexico inhabiting philly and the internet. Her work is collaborative and experimental, rooted in an insatiable desire to tease, a fascination with survival, and a queercore aesthetic of dreams.

ray ferreira: ¿wenami?• blk latinx de queens. Their performative practice uses iridescence, movement, projection, repetition, and *~-~~*quantum poetics*~~-~* to create a ??banj criticallity:turnup w/the gurls and swerve past white cishet patriarchy that indetermina(c). They can be located museum educating at the Studio Museum in Harlem, as well as floating through other museum education departments. Other intersections of space, time, and matter include ITINERANT (at the Glasshouse), La MaMA, and various additional intra-actions.

RAFiA Santana is a Brooklyn-born-and-raised artist and self proclaimed media maniac. As a child she was given the freedom and privilege to develop her talent for communicating through crafts. However, growing up small, female, and black she found that she was frequently and persistently misunderstood. As an act of perseverance and self-preservation she used several different mediums to express herself when one wasn’t enough.

On View: July 5 - August 30

Join us for an Opening Reception on July 14 6:30-9:30pm, featuring a live performance by ray ferreira!

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Credits

Photo credit
Eva Wŏ

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