Featuring:
Farah Al Qasimi    Beatriz Cortez    micha cárdenas    Tessa Grundon Joiri Minaya    Ada M. Patterson    Himali Singh Soin Himali Singh Soin and Alexis Rider 

Historically, colonial enterprises have violently linked land- and water-scapes with the bodies of women and femmes, queer people, and people of color in order to dehumanize them. By becoming dirt and water, such bodies have been equated with “natural” resources, made vulnerable to exploitation, extraction, and land theft justified along lines of race, gender, and sexuality. Yet such linkages, particularly in recent years, have been meaningfully appropriated by artists as acts of resistance that articulate new futures and magnify marginalized histories. Presenting the work of Farah Al Qasimi, Beatriz Cortez, micha cárdenas, Tessa Grundon, Joiri Minaya, Ada M. Patterson, Himali Singh Soin, and Alexis Rider, Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters engages with complex questions around impermanence, belonging, transformation, and erasure as they relate to human (and non-human) lives and the earth itself.

Read the complete Curatorial Statement here.

Visiting the Show

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All non-NYU community members (including recent alumni who no longer have the Daily Screener) can view the exhibit by appointment, by emailing GallatinEvents@nyu.edu at least 1 business day in advance.  The exhibit is closed on weekends. If you wish to make an appointment for Monday please let us know by noon the Friday before.

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All non-NYU visitors must make an appointment to attend.