In the Words, In the Bones: Opening Reception & Artists Panel

When:
Thursday, May 23, 2019 5:30p -
9:00p

Where:
Mills Gallery
551 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02116

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art

Event website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/397182861131714/

On view: May 23–July 21
Artists Panel: Thursday, May 23 | 5:30–7 pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 23 | 7–9 pm


Curated by Magdalena Moskalewicz


Participating Artists: Marina Leybishkis, Nyugen Smith and Zsuzsanna Szegedi-Varga


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 post-communist 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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