Ecologías Solidarias
About
As part of their exhibition Ecologías Solidarias, at the Aborn Gallery at AS220, artists Asma Kazmi and Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez will reunite to revisit and reimagine their performance from 20 years ago. Collaborating with their long term colleague, Katherine Toukhy, this iteration of the multimedia performance brings together the three artists to explore new interpretations of material histories, colonial legacy, and collective memory and to spark meaningful conversation and reflection on our contemporary and historical landscape.
Free. Registration for this in-person program is requested.
Asma Kazmi’s large scale installations blend physical and virtual spaces. Her sculptures, connoting materiality, cultural lineage, and craft are juxtaposed with virtual and augmented reality models of art historical objects and particular geographies. Taking an expansive approach to installation art, she researches and reassesses the intertwining histories of Western colonialism and her diasporic Muslim culture. Kazmi has exhibited her work widely and is currently a professor in the department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley.
Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez is an artist, curator, and educator. Their artistic production includes photography, painting, film/video, installation and performance art. They are interested in otherness, anarcha-feminism, galactical dimensions and obliterating colonial systems. Vázquez Rodríguez has exhibited their work nationally and internationally.
Katherine Toukhy draws upon movement, land elements, and her intersectional reality to transform figurative shapes into wall reliefs and participatory installations. She is also a certified meditation instructor and combines embodied practices and art to work with people. Toukhy uses these processes to shake off colonial narratives and assert presence, informed by her experiences as a Coptic Egyptian American-born woman. She resides in Lenapehoking/NYC and has exhibited and led workshops nationally and internationally.