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Claimed and Reclaimed
AnkhLave Arts Alliance
May 18-June 16
Colonels Row - Colonels Row - Building 408B
Claimed and Reclaimed, AnkhLave Arts Alliance’s annual Garden Project Fellowship group show, celebrates BIPOC artists who own and redefine their cultural narratives. This expression shines in the use of recycled and repurposed materials that resist Western centered art making traditions. Such a gesture speaks to the power of symbolically taking land back from colonizing forces. Home to the Lenape people prior to European contact, Governors Island has also been a site of Black labor. Black slaves built the fortifications on Governors Island; in 1918, an African American Army labor battalion was stationed here.
Today, immigrants own and staff businesses and operations on the Island. In reclaiming this historical house, AnkhLave artists bring their creations to diverse audiences outside of a Western white wall gallery context. While the walls in the house may be white, they are decaying. Claimed and Reclaimed breathes new life into them. Collectively, the artists’ palettes draw inspiration from the blues, greens, and earth tones that have long colored this maritime environment.
This exhibition features the works of Kraig Blue (Public Artist-in-Residence), Damali Abrams, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, Diego Espaillat, Xiong Wei, and Chihiro Ito (AnkhLave Garden Project Fellows). Curated by Cecilia André & Christine Stoddard.
AnkhLave Arts Alliance is one of the 2024 Governors Island Arts Organizations in Residence.
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