OUT
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ART
Outleft Art was a collaborative short-term exhibition space led by Manufacturer's Village Artists and Luma Art Advisory and held in the Madison Ave Business District of New York City.
Our mission was to increase the exposure of New Jersey artists for pivotal career growth. In our endeavors, we partnered with Madison Avenue BID to organize community programming which included hosting network receptions for local businesses and participating in their district's art walk for maximum audience reach.
Three visual artists across disparate regions of the globe compose a visual language of migration and its experience of fleeting memories, adapting a multicultural identity and ancestral archiving. Becoming is a study on the axis of a migrant city as the trio of artists' studio practice resides in Newark. New Jersey’s populous city of international migrants. A microcosm to cities across the globe.
Becoming is an exploration of a cross-continental cultivation of identity.
It’s a tale of how enriching cultural exchange is in a community.
Matilda Forsberg's juxtaposed renderings of family photographs and recurring dream settings of familiar terrains are mystified dream sequences of fleeting images of one’s ancestry.
Kwesi O. Kwarteng's fabric paintings utilize various culturally significant fabrics and sewing methods to compose topographical maps and multicultural flags in a tale of a multi-cultural identity brought about by globalization.
Layqa Nuna Yawar creates iconography of the migrant experience by referencing indigenous mythologies with modern portraits of individuals from the diaspora in the story of continuing the legacy in a globalized world.