April 25, 2024
OAS AMA F Street Gallery
1889 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
Erola Arcalís (Menorca / Spain)
Rosi Calderón (Mexico)
Tomiko Jones (United States)
Ania Moussawel (United States)
Lissette Schaeffler (Cuba)
Elizabeth Sanjuan (United States)
Erola Arcalís (Menorca / Spain) combines images of abstract landscapes and sculptural still life to create fictions around individual and collective memories. Her Shipwreck Studies draws influence from her great-grandfather, a shipbuilder and a humanist. Rosi Calderón (Mexico) creates visual narratives which capture the intricate complexity of time through compositions that reveal the constant movement between the present and the past. Also interweaving past and present, life and death, and using oceanic vessels to conjure subject matter, Tomiko Jones (United States) references her father inhabiting the diaphanous space between life and death, with floating silk landscapes and solid walnut framed images of the body and its urn, with suspended ribs of the skeleton boat and the heft of the hand-carved wooden oar. Ania Moussawel (United States) depicts different generations as they grow and age, and the life that continues after the death of a family member, through the lens of migratory patterns, shining a light on the roles of mothers as providers, caregivers, and the bearers of cultural traditions. Lissette Schaeffler (Cuba) focuses on exploring the connections between memory, time, and place, exploring family histories, assembled memories, and the passage of time. Elizabeth Sanjuan establishes an intimate series revolving around her grandmother, revealing strength and tenderness across a lifetime marked by changes along the personal and political landscapes from Cuba to the United States.
Throughout these artists's works, we see movement between the present and the past, across lifespans. There are successes and hardships according to circumstances. We see the walls of homes, dilapidated and dusty, filled with memory and significant personal objects, from wedding dresses to clocks. We see ships built and ships wrecked. Join us on a journey across national borders and through time.
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