KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS
How will we reconcile disparate identities and nurture an entire sense of self? Within the exhibition, “Temporal Geolocation,” Paula Mans, T. Owens Union, Candace Caston, and Jeanna Penn draw on historical past and a way of place to make collage artwork that speaks to identification. The art work of T. Owens Union (a element of art work featured right here) attracts on the expertise of her paternal grandmother who made patchwork quilts in Alabama and “displays the African American cultural expertise all through historical past.” She wrote, “The shortage of an correct and totally realized historic understanding of this neighborhood has at instances led to exclusion and invisibility in American society. I take advantage of this expertise to tell a gift voice for ancestors who too usually have been silenced and suppressed.” The quilt, she famous, “a logo of safety and steering in our neighborhood, is commonly integrated into the artwork.” The exhibition runs via 24 November 2024. The gallery is open Thursday via Saturday from Midday to 6PM. READ MORE
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Kolaj Journal, a full colour, print journal, exists to point out how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new considering. To know collage is to reshape one’s considering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.