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Memory Vault
March 13 - May 22
Tuesday through Saturday
9 am - 9 pm
Jamaica Arts Center
161-04 Jamaica Ave
Jamaica, NY 11432
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Memory Vault
Opens March 13 • Curated by: Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa • Program Manager: Sherwin Banfield
Join us for the highly anticipated exhibit Memory Vault. The group show is the culminating exhibition for JCAL's ARTWorks Fellows. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Margarita Rosa.
Memory Vault is an exhibition that mediates on the present moment as a future archive. Artists are asked to use portraiture, cityscapes, sculpture, and experimental forms to create an archive of the now: an archive of faces, gestures, skylines, personal spaces, and communal rhythms. They are encouraged to explore the deeply intimate — the details of their own lives, families, living rooms, bedrooms, neighborhoods — alongside the broader cultural materials shaping our shared present. Television shows, music, digital aesthetics, street fashion, architectural forms, viral trends, food traditions, household objects, neighborhood storefronts, and the emotional climate of their communities become essential tools of documentation.
ABOUT Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa
Margarita Lila Rosa is a Dominican historian and independent curator, based in New York, and specializing in Afro-diasporic history and modern and contemporary art. She received her Ph. D from Princeton University. Rosa was a part of the inaugural Studio Museum in Harlem’s Arts Praxis class, and she was a recipient of the Early State Arts Professional Fellowship by the A & L Berg Foundation. She has written for the Museum of Modern Art and has art history essays in The Brooklyn Rail, i-D, and Frieze, along with articles in journals including the Caribbean Quarterly and the Journal of African American History.
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