Speaking In Shadows: An Invocation of Migrant Presence
Daniel Almeida Arturo, Nyssa Chow and Jennifer Wen Ma
October 15, 6-8pm, Join us for an open house and meet the three artists behind the installation where they will be in residency with our community to invoke what is lost and remembered across experiences of migration.
影中絮语：祈喚生命的遷徙與存在
Daniel Almeida Arturo, Nyssa Chow and Jennifer Wen Ma
10月15日下午 6 點～ 8 點，歡迎参加本展三位藝術的見面會。在驻留社区期间，他們將祈喚不同遷徙歷程中那些消逝與深鐫的記憶。
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Daniel Arturo Almeida is an artist working through photography, installation, painting, and digital media. His practice chronicles intimate and collective stories in the Americas. Marked by inter-generational migrations, Almeida weaves fragmented stories through archival materials, melodies, documents, and footage to resignify historical manipulation, nostalgia, collective amnesia, and longing. Selected exhibitions include “The Elephant Never Forgets” (2024, Locust Projects, Miami, FL), “Glow in The Dark” (2021, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY). Almeida received a curatorial fellowship at The Latinx Project at NYU (2021), and a membership at NEW INC, New Museum, New York (2022). www.danielarturoalmeida.com
Nyssa Chow is a memory worker, oral historian, artist, and writer from Trinidad whose work draws on the memory practices of the Caribbean and the Global South. Her work attends to the poetry of ordinary lives: ways of being and knowing held by those who live on the margins of agency. Through installation, social practice, and documentary art, she builds otherwise architectures for remembering: place-based, communal, embodied, relational. She is faculty at the Oral History Master's Program (OHMA) at Columbia University. She has received national commendations for her civic artwork Trace: A Memorial, and was awarded the PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for The Story of Her Skin. www.tellinghistories.com
Jennifer Wen Ma is an interdisciplinary visual artist working across installation, painting, video, public art, performance, and social practice. Ma’s work brings together unexpected elements, narratives, and traditions, merging philosophical inquiry with contemporary materials to create poetic, emotionally resonant, multi-sensorial experiences. She is currently working on two major public artworks for NYC Cultural Affairs Percent for Art program: the renovation of 70 Mulberry Street and Chinatown Welcome Gateway. www.littlemeat.net
Chinatown Arts Festival, presented by Think!Chinatown, celebrates the cultural richness of Manhattan’s Chinatown. We present Chinatown folk artists and emerging Asian American artists in dialogue with each other, so that we can bring generations together and connect with a wider arts audience.
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