Works by artist Azuki Furuya and Ethiopian painter Hana Yilma Godine. Electronic musician, percussionist and instrument maker Levy Lorenzo will perform. Furuya’s works on paper explore the fragility of memory, with the material process itself as a form of storytelling. After drawing the composition from a photograph on a wooden or metal board, Furuya builds it up with layered bits of colored paper, magazine cutouts and fragments of the photograph, then meticulously sands down the papered surface until its layers are exposed, and paints inside and around the contours. The resulting artworks are highly textured and luminous, a testament to precariousness and persistence of life, memory and myth. Godine's work is influenced by observations of her surroundings and social structures during her upbringing in the multicultural metropolis of Addis Ababa, and travels in Europe and the United States. Featuring 12 works, each installed in a different way, and set to magical sounds of Ethio Jazz, the exhibition takes the viewer through coexisting histories and geographies, through psychological and architectural spaces defined by the paintings themselves. Please wear a mask.
Manhattan, New York, NY