PROJECTS:

In the Words, In the Bones
(de)fault-lines - exhibit
TTHYGS
Fracture Analysis - II

History Likes Repeating Itself
Double Erasure
Film I brought back from Hungary
SPECTACLE STUDIO
WHO STOLE MY SUBLIME
Fracture Analysis - I
GONE/reDONE
SISYPHUS THE DAY AFTER
Crisis of the Visible
CRISIS OF THE Invisible
Crisis of the Free Spirit
THE END OF SLEEP
Institutional sunset
APROPER ERASURE
NO PLACE FOR […]
TRACE WITH ME
MID-CONVERSATIONAL MERGE
Debated Utopia

Awkward Beauty

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In the Words, In the Bones
—exhibition 5/23 - 7/21, 2019

Curated by Magdalena Moskalewicz
Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts

 

Participating artists: Marina Leybishkis, Nyugen E. Smith, Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi

Stories of origin cannot exist without a language to tell them in, without a tongue to carry the words. In the Words, In the Bones is an exhibition about inherited identities as grounded in language and in the body. Three artists with roots in Central Asia (Uzbekistan), Eastern Europe (Hungary) and the Caribbean (Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago) uncover their family histories, examine the contentious heritage of the colonial era and postcommunist ruptures and absences. The stories they inherited are marked with political conflicts and personal loss, but their own gestures are constitutive in nature. Through the use of invented languages, recovered historical records and reconstructed cultural artifacts, the artists create new, empowering narratives of reclamation, revival and growth.

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