photo documentation of “The one with the manes” solo exhibition at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery
exhibition project
“The one with the manes” is a multimedia exhibition exploring a shared history between Morocco, Brazil, and Portugal through video, sound, photographs, watercolors, paper, clay, wax, and stone. A response to the history of a forced exodus across the Atlantic, the exhibition explores rituality, memory, archives, and water. ‘Manes,’ signifying both ancestral souls and lions’ manes, permeate the exhibition’s liquid and opaque structure. The installations offer subtle gestures of care, forming archipelagic connections and bearing witness to the invisible erasures operated by power. By focusing on sensory experiences, the installations aim to erode and infiltrate institutional archives and reimagine our relations with memory through embodied and ritual practices.
The installations play with tensions between the analog and digital, and different time-based media strategies of erosion and relationality: digital glitch, low-fi images and sounds, pixelization, reprints, flooded paper, broken fragments mended or sitting next to each other in archipelagic structures. These are the artist’s methods of thinking, making, and being.
One of the installations in the project is "Sab‘at ’Amwaj.” More information on the installation can be found here.
Artist residency at Hangar in August 2022
Artist residency at Le Cube in August 2023
Santa Cruz County Arts Council Create Grant
“Amending Worlds” group exhibition at the MAH in Santa Cruz
“The one with the manes” solo exhibition at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery
photo documentation of “The one with the manes” solo exhibition at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery