💫 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗲'𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲, 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲. 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗲'𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗴, 𝗯𝗶𝗴 … A Solo Exhibition by Krista Anara Cibis 𝗢𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄 June 5 - June 22 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 Saturday, June 7 from 4 - 7 pm 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 Sunday, June 22 from 12 - 2 pm This hand-embroidered body of work is the culmination of a multi-year project, begun in 2018 and completed in 2024. Initially, Cibis had become more attentive to the words and phrases she heard shouted on the street or spoken aloud next to me on the train in the rhythms of repetition. She was not aware of my shift in attention, at first. A gradual change took place through the noticing. Listening became documenting. Cibis began writing down the exact phrase I heard spoken. She noted the date, time and location where I heard the words strangers were yelling or speaking to no one and yet, conversely, given the volume, spoken to everyone. (fb)

🌼 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 … An Exhibition Curated by Tanya Latortue 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 Visual Artist Kara Mshinda + Sound Artist JL Simonson Of Black Wombhood (OBW) is a narrative portraits project led by emerging independent curator/cultural producer, Tanya Latortue. Featuring auditory and visual renderings of 10 personal narratives, OBW explores the interiority of Black womb-bearing people through stories about culture, health, sexuality, identity, and the politicization of the Black body from the past to the present. The powerful stories from 10 individuals will be divided into two distinct yet connected exhibitions with the storytellers being featured at TILT and DVAA. Visual artist Kara Mshinda renders each story into a portrait of its narrator through her distinctive fusion of photography and collage. Sound artist JL Simonson blends interview excerpts with ambient sound and audible frequency to adapt the narratives into an experimental soundscape. The immersive, multimedia and co-institutional project includes public events focused on the project’s intersecting themes (culture, health, sexuality, identity and the politicization of the Black body) to celebrate its narrators and creative community. To learn more about the narrators and their stories, please visit the OBW project website at theblackwombhoodproject.com (fb)