being Here... in Memory

CURATED BY Marjani Forté-Saunders. FEATURING Vincent Ballentine, Nia Love, Jasmine Murrell, and Everett Saunders

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Jasmine Murrell

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Jasmine Murrell's Immortal Uterus 

“...takes us further into the abyss of our consciousness, perhaps even our origins as conscious beings.  The hugging, bulging mass and oozing darkness reminds us of the beauty of our imagination and the looming peril of unkempt darkness.”

-Marjani Forté-Saunders

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I dreamt of black Utopia I dread parasitic capitalist I remember your love I am infinitely blessed

Jasmine Murrell

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Jasmine Murrell

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Jasmine Murrell + Vincent Ballentine

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MocadaPart2

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Everett Asis Saunders

3-D Sound Instillation

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MocadaPart 1

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Everett Asis Saunders

3-D Sound Instillation

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I dreamt of freedom I dread life's formalities I remember the depth inside I am unconventional unpredictable undone

Everett Asis Saunders

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Everett Asis Saunders’ 3-D Sound Instillation

“... three-dimensional sound installation awakens the ones’ cognizance, and situates one at the seat of the inner mind. The video work reveals the intimate thoughts and conflicting states that occur in the public eye.” 

-Marjani Forte-Saunders

Images by Roy Rochlin

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I dreamt we ran away I dread going bald I remember holding her I am beginning, middle & end

Vincent Ballentine

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Vincent Ballentine’s triptych portrait series

“Ballentine’s triptych portrait series and video installation ushers the viewer into a solitary conversation with the self.”- Marjani Forte

Images by Roy Rochlin

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Vincent Ballentine’s Setting the Stage

“...is a spray painted mural that brings the outdoors indoors, in celebration of New York City’s distinct brownstone architecture and the aesthetics of Bronx-founded graffiti culture.” - Marjani Forte

Images by Roy Rochlin

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Vincent Ballentine + Nia Love

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I speak about the 'memory' of a space, a place that is there even if I don't think about it and where the balancing act of bitches, hoes and the twerking jerking, knee slapping, shuck and jiving, snake hips Willy and Damballah's  iridescent tongue flickers with glimpses of time before. Time swaying you in and out of  severed labia's, buttocks, breast and carnival sounds...the picture of it, the space, the place is still there right where it happened

Nia Love

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Grandma Elsie’s Room by Nia Love 

“...harkens the parlor room of a Harlem Brownstone in an ode to the scared intimacy of domestic interiors, the practice of spiritual gatekeeping, and the realities of internal upheaval.” - Marjani Forte

Images by Roy Rochlin

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Nia Love

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Nia Love

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