2019 - 2020 | Baltimore, MD, USA
Many non-western cultures consider time to be non-linear, challenging the sequentiality of past/present/future. something edgeless, something spectral transcends this distinction .it engages a conception of time that is fundamental to intergenerational and communal life. we centre the memory of and the nature of in-betweenness for the non-white, the immigrant, the spirtually and ancestrally-driven. this relationship to time, memory, and the in-between is akin to a portal—one that pulls back layers and, simultaneously, folds onto itself.
something edgeless, something spectral holds space for six interdisciplinary artists to traverse nonlinear time. this exhibition invites a manifestation of each artist’s relationship with the in-between, collapsed time, and memory. new media and traditional processes are utilized in tandem to merge past/present/future. Karina Aguleira Svirsky, Khadija Nia Adell, Larry Cook, Safra Tadesse, Sobia Ahmad, and Taina Cruz embark on this journey, housed in Waller Gallery, a black-owned, woman-owned gallery.
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Waller Gallery was conceived in 2017 by curator Joy Davis to support black and marginalized artists at any stage of their practices that work within various forms of art in Baltimore. Waller considers all forms of art including design, social practice, craft, and digital art. We are passionate about engaging with artists at any stage of their practice. Notwithstanding the current political assault on artists. We will continue the tradition of black-owned businesses in Baltimore. To help the art collecting community at large we offer dynamic art advisory services.
Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) is a year-long MICA course in which students experience the curatorial process by working collaboratively with the assistance of professional mentors to research, plan, and produce a major exhibition. MICA’s undergraduate Concentration in Curatorial Studies is currently administered by faculty member Jeffry Cudlin. This year Curatorial Practice MFA student Nathalie von Veh serves as the EDS class teaching assistant.
Featuring:
New York-based artist Karina Aguilera Skvirsky uses photography, video, and performance to explore her experiences living between Ecuador and the United States. Her most recent work re-imagines the use of indigenous technology from Ingapirca, Ecuador
Khadija Nia Adell works in Baltimore as a multimedia artist, arts administrator, and independent curator. She investigates her connection as a queer black body to the African diaspora through a multifaceted practice engaging collage, fiber, and digital manipulation.
Born and raised in Pakistan, D.C.-based interdisciplinary artist Sobia Ahmad weaves her personal experience and community narratives with current and historical socio-political contexts. Using fibers, sound, photography, and installation, she highlights the inseparability of the self and larger power structures.
Multidimensional researcher, archivist, and artist Taina Cruz investigates systems of collective consciousness and individual realms through digital means. Currently working in Baltimore, Cruz focuses on connecting Indigenous American and West African material, ritual, and visual culture to contemporary Afro-Latinx experiences.
Safra Tadesse works as a curator, activist, and artist, hosting experimental art events in and around Baltimore. They create immersive science fiction and Afrofuturist spiritual experience utilizing indigenous dancing, sound performance, and video.
Multidisciplinary artist and father Larry Cook creates staged images and uses strategies of appropriation in his Maryland-based practice. His photography critically examines the construction of black masculinity.