Photo Collage of the artists' works showed in the exhibition

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Holly Bass
A River Is A Body
2020
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Rodell Warner
Miniature Black Hole 1
2019
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Rodell Warner
Miniature Black Hole 2
2019
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Rodell Warner
Miniature Black Hole 3
2019
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Rodell Warner
Miniature Black Hole 4
2019
06
Di-Andre Caprice Davis
NOT YOUR KIND OF ARTIST. Part 3. More Than What You Thought
2019
07
Shaka Fumu
Les Robots
2020
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Shaka Fumu
Le Robot Corona Virus
2020
09
Shaka Fumu
Le Robot Bouchons
2018
10
Shaka Fumu
Le Robot CD: Djuha nini
2018
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Shaka Fumu
BoGa
2020
12
Rabbya Naseer
Take Me For A Walk
2018
13
Kwang Lin Wong
In Transit
2019
14
Leticia Barreto And Joaquim Marques
Linhas do Destino
2020
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Leticia Barreto And Joaquim Marques
Linhas do destino
2019
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Leticia Barreto And Joaquim Marques
Linhas do Destino
2017

Curatorial Text

“Through a Fluid Mosaic” invites you to experience artistically the plural horizons of "passing" between antipodal realities. In biology, the ‘fluid mosaic’ is a model explaining the paradoxical nature of the living cell’s membrane that acts as a porous and malleable barrier. This membrane represents a liminal border that’s liquid, permeable, chaotic and unshaped, where mosaics form, deform and un-form. The mosaic is an assortment of ‘bridges’ embedded into this barrier and connects the exterior and interior parts of a cell. In conclusion: the fluid mosaic implies an ever-changing state of the boundary that keeps mutating the cell’s identity. The exhibition takes the form of a simple knot shape; it’s created with a one-dimensional line segment that wraps itself and around itself arbitrarily. This path suggests you to move in-between the works without the purpose to start or to reach an endpoint. These endless trajectories and entanglements evoke the dynamic state of the Fluid Mosaic. We (the artists and myself) invite you to become this path, following the lines and the dots of this knot. Each color of the dots belongs to the corpus of one artist, located in every area delineated by the knot. You will explore: the crossings beyond mosaics of stereotypes through nature, with Di-Andre Caprice Davis; the stationary feeling of crossing barriers through time, with Holly Bass; the tangible entanglements of migratory lines, with Leticia Barreto and Joaquim Marques; the temporal sense of collectivity emerging from overturning your transits, with Kwang Lin Wong ; the movement of limitless elements becoming bounded, with Rodell Warner; a multilayered paradox arisen from moving an unmovable being, with Rabbya Naseer; the act of recycling memories that channel new futures, with Shaka Fumu.

Tags: biology, Jamaica , Trinidad&Tobago , USA, RDC , Singapore, Pakistan , Brazil, anthropology, dance, video art, photography, performance art

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Holly Bass

A RIVER IS A BODY 2020

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Rodell Warner

MINIATURE BLACK HOLE 1 2019

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Rodell Warner

MINIATURE BLACK HOLE 2 2019

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Rodell Warner

MINIATURE BLACK HOLE 3 2019

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Rodell Warner

MINIATURE BLACK HOLE 4 2019

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Di-Andre Caprice Davis

NOT YOUR KIND OF ARTIST. PART 3. MORE THAN WHAT YOU THOUGHT 2019

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Shaka Fumu

LES ROBOTS 2020

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Shaka Fumu

LE ROBOT CORONA VIRUS 2020

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Shaka Fumu

LE ROBOT BOUCHONS 2018

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Shaka Fumu

LE ROBOT CD: DJUHA NINI 2018

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Shaka Fumu

BOGA 2020

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Rabbya Naseer

TAKE ME FOR A WALK 2018

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Kwang Lin Wong

IN TRANSIT 2019

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Leticia Barreto And Joaquim Marques

LINHAS DO DESTINO 2020

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Leticia Barreto And Joaquim Marques

LINHAS DO DESTINO 2019

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Leticia Barreto And Joaquim Marques

LINHAS DO DESTINO 2017

Holly Bass

Holly Bass is a multidisciplinary performance and visual artist, writer and director. She is a 2019-2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, a 2019 Dance/USA Artist Fellow, and was selected for a 2019-2021 Live Feed residency with New York Live Arts. She has curated numerous festivals and events such as the NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival and the Kennedy Center's One Mic Global Hip-Hop Festival. A gifted and dedicated teaching artist, for four years she directed a year-round creative writing and performance program for adjudicated youth in DC’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services as well as facilitating workshops nationally and internationally. She is currently the national director for Turnaround Arts at the Kennedy Center, a program which uses the arts strategically to transform schools facing severe inequities. Artist Statement The poet Roque Dalton wrote, “Poetry, like bread, is for everyone.” I believe the same is true of art. This ethos was instilled in me while working in socially conscious hip-hop communities in DC and New York in the 1990s and continues to inform my work and my aesthetic. My training as a dancer, poet and teaching artist enables me to move between traditional theater and art spaces as well as community or alternative spaces such as libraries, nightclubs and outdoor plazas. My primary mediums are performance and text, but my work also includes video, photography, and installations which I view as " disembodied performances." Much of my work includes a tangible exchange with the viewer, usually of money, words, or physical touch. In this way I hope to make unspoken and invisible codes of behavior and exchange, particularly around gender and race, visible and explicit. I strive to produce compelling work that challenges and disrupts business as usual while highlighting shared human connections.  As a working artist, I embrace the creative economy model which views artists as vital and active contributors to their communities. As a cultural organizer, I seek to change our understanding of art’s value and purpose in our society. I believe it is possible to forge a life of purpose and beauty no matter the circumstances in which we find ourselves.

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Rodell Warner

Rodell Warner is a Trinidadian artist working primarily in new media and photography. His works have been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art in the 2016 Dreamlands exhibition as part of the collective video project Ways of Something, and at The National Gallery of Jamaica in the 2016 exhibition Digital, and at the 10th Berlin Biennale in 2018 in I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #14. Rodell is a recipient of the 2011 Commonwealth Connections International Arts Residency, and the 2014 summer residency at NLS Kingston, and was commissioned in 2017 to create the Davidoff Art Edition, a series of five artworks printed onto a limited edition of five thousand boxes of luxury cigars and presented and sold at Art Basel in Hong Kong, Miami, and Basel. Rodell lives and works between Port of Spain in Trinidad, Kingston in Jamaica, and Austin, Texas, in the US.

Di-Andre Caprice Davis

Di-Andre Caprice Davis was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a self-directed experimental artist. Her practice focuses on a research-based experimental approach that is used to primarily explore form and the development of non-standard languages through the engagement of the capacities inherent to new media. Her work seeks to compare and contrast ways in which the human brain perceives, processes and interprets visual imagery. She has exhibited across the Caribbean and internationally. Notable exhibitions include the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Jamaica Biennial (2014 and 2017),Young Talent (2015), Digital (2016), Explorations VI Engaging Abstraction (2017 – 2018), Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora (2016) at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, United Kingdom and New Century/New Materials – Current Art Trends in Science and Technology (2019) at Spaulding R. Aldrich Heritage Gallery, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, USA. She completed art residencies at Bluecoat, Liverpool, United Kingdom (2016) and Alice Yard, Trinidad (2018). At the 2017 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, she won the award for Best Experimental Film for her work Chaotic Beauty, 2016, which has also been shown at The Dean Collection’s No Commission show during Art Basel Miami 2017. Artist Statement My practice focuses on a research-based experimental approach that is used to primarily explore form and the development of non-standard languages through the engagement of the capacities inherent to new media. My work seeks to compare and contrast ways in which the human brain perceives, processes and interprets visual imagery. Abstraction, computer graphics, GIF art, glitch art, mathematics, photography, science, surrealism and videography are some of the fascinations that animate my practice. Most of my digital images begin with abstract illustrations I have conceptualised and created, or a photograph or video which appeals to me because it may convey mystery or an unusual beauty. My art continues to fuel my interest to investigate and learn different ways of making use of the ever-changing world of technology.

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Shaka Fumu

Shaka Fumu is a plastician artist, performer and musician born in Kisangani, RDC. He studied at the Tchocolo Technical School and frequented the Mukalai painting studio, both located in Kisangani, RDC. Since 2011, he is living and working in Kinshasa. Shaka has performed at: FESMAN (World Festival of Black Arts) in 2013; the Institut Français in Kinshasa in 2018; the Palm Beach concert hall in Kinshasa in 2019; the National Museum of RDC with the collective Ndaku Ya, La Vie Est Belle, in 2020. As a musician of Afro Trap, Rap and Slam genres, he recorded two albums: “The Master” in 2010 and “Kilima” in 2018, by Lascar Bantu Prod-Rd. Congo. He sings with the Yal’Afrika music group as well. Artist statement: I wish to address my works to the Congolese youth. Through my music and performative costumes, I push the young Congolese generations to think and to become active citizens of the nation. Through my performances, I spur them to contribute to the development of the world-wide populations and to collaborate with national and international entities, fighting together for a sustainable future.

Rabbya Naseer

Rabbya Naseer is an interdisciplinary artist who is engaged in making, curating, writing and teaching of art. Her practice is broadly concerned with exploring the parallels between Art and everyday-life and highlighting the similarities (in production, representation, reception & interpretation) between the two. ‘Work’ as a material entity is then only a by-product of Naseer’s attempts to understand lived experiences and encounters. Through her practice she examines these experiences and encounters as well as the structures of predetermined categories that contain them, in order to complicate the relationship between ‘self’ and ‘other’. In her roles of artist, curator, writer and teacher her interests lie in being a facilitator orchestrating situations of reciprocity through the complexity of mediums (the written and spoken word, visuals, moving images, objects, performances and other people’s work). Currently she is working on compiling an archive of performance art from Pakistan. Alongside her independent practice, Naseer has been maintaining her collaborative practice with Hurmatul Ain since 2007. She has an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from NCA, Lahore (2006) and is a recipient of Fulbright scholarship (2008-2010) for Masters in Art History, Theory and Criticism from SAIC, Chicago. Naseer has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses at NCA and BNU (Lahore) since 2010 and has also taught at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia (2015 & 2017). Her works and writings have appeared in various Pakistani and international publications. She has participated in exhibitions, residencies and conferences in Pakistan, India, USA, UK, Dubai, China, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia and Portugal.

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Kwang Lin Wong

Wong Kwang Lin is a restless movement artist and researcher with an interest in the mundane and forms of care. She is from and based in Singapore. In 2019, she performed in Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions and José Maceda’s Cassettes 100; as well as exhibiting works and performing in a joint exhibition, Intimacies, for The Future Of Our Pasts Festival. Her movement practice is supported by training in contemporary, ballet and contact improvisation. As a researcher, her background is in anthropology and she uses qualitative and quantitative methods, examining issues including digital policy in Asia, "social resilience" and urban built heritage. Artist statement: Sites of transport are often thought of as generic spaces where nothing much happens - one enters a bus or a station only in order to get somewhere else. The dance video In Transit places a series of disruptive bodies in these in-between places, playing on the transient interactions between passengers and the people and objects that occupy their imaginations in the everyday routines of travel. In the simultaneous isolation and unity of travellers, so much could happen after all.

Leticia Barreto And Joaquim Marques

Letícia Barreto, born in Brazil. Fine artist and art educator based in Lisbon, Portugal. She studied fine arts at Istituto Lorenzo di Medici in Florence, with Rotary Foundation´s scholarship. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts and Intermedia from Évora University in Portugal. She has exhibited in Brazil, the USA, Ecuador, Italy, Portugal, and Germany and has worked with curators such as Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke, Amilcar Packer, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz and Sandra Miranda Pattin. Among her exhibitions are: Zero Edge Contemporary Art Event: Latin America Coronavirus Hierarchies; Alptraum, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA; Love and Ethnology - The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte), HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt- Berlin (2019); “Implosão: trans(relacion)ando Hubert Fichte” organized by Goethe Institut - Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica - Rio de Janeiro and Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia - Salvador; Nós os Outros, SESC Sorocaba (2016); Linhas do Destino, Galeria Fernanda Monteiro, Sorocaba/SP (2016); Poipoidrome - Frestas Trienal de Arte, SESC, Sorocaba/São Paulo (2015); Woundscapes, suffering, creativity and bare life, Pavilhão Preto - Museu da Cidade, Lisbon (2012), and Centro Universitário Maria Antônia - USP/ São Paulo (2013), Museu do Esquecimento II, Galeria Palácio de Galveias, Lisbon (2009). Artist Statement In my artwork, the concept determines the technique, be it painting, drawing, photography, visual analogy, and collage, intervention on objects, installation, or urban intervention. Starting from my personal experience as an immigrant, I explore the concepts of home and shelter; the construction of our perception of the so-called "other"; the migration flows throughout the past and recent history; the way certain facts about our History are sometimes disguised, erased, whitened, silenced; the sense of interdependence with each other and all other living things. My work is never quite what it seems at a first sight, I like to play with the viewer´s expectations, mixing reality and illusion, and therewith subverting the use of classical art techniques. In the past, I have used stamps as a drawing material, painted with bleach, scratched photos with metal tips, or simply bathed them in bleach. And even a watercolor, that may seem pretty and innocent, will reveal concealed meaning when observed more closely. I enjoy working as a multidisciplinary artist, and in collaboration with other artists and researchers, often engaging in artistic projects with my partner and fellow artist Joaquim Marques. Joaquim S. Marques (born in Frankfurt, DE) studied Fine Arts at Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach (DE) and Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt (1991-1996). In 1998 he obtained a DAAD scholarship, in the same year he moved to Lisbon. In 2000/2001 he studied Painting at Centro de Artes e Comunicações in Lisbon, PT. Between 2013 and 2017 he lived and worked in Brazil. In 2017 he was an artist resident at MArt in Lisbon. Selected for the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Prize in 2020. Joaquim S. Marques lives and works in Lisbon. Artist statement: I see watercolor as a subconscious way to create fictitious memories of landscapes that might exist somewhere. As time goes by memories become blurry, but at the same time, they get a new immaterial quality. The unpredictability of water transforms color and shapes in oneiric images of Nature. Unpainted parts on the paper are like a loss of information, a loss of memories. Watercolour is, paraphrasing the Brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa, working memory in its solid, liquid, and gas state.

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More Info

Thanks to the team of Art Curator Grid and a special thanks to the artists, who accepted to adventure into this journey. INSPIRATIONAL TEXTS : The fluid mosaic model was proposed in 1972 by the researchers, S.J. SINGER, and GARTH N. INGOLD, Tim. 2007. Lines: A Brief History. Routledge, Oxford, UK CAMAITI HOSERT, Anna. 2003. Passing, Dossolvere le identità superare ledifferenze, Castelvecchi editore: Roma LICKORISH W. B. RAYMOND, "Prime Knots and Tangles", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Volume 267. Number 1, September 1981

Holly Bass' exhibition prototype

Rodell Warner's exhibition prototype

Shaka Fumu's exhibition prototype

Shaka Fumu's exhibition prototype

Di-Andre Caprice Davis' exhibition prototype

Rabbya Naseer's exhibition prototype

Kwang Lin Wong's exhibition prototype

Leticia Barreto and Joaquim Marques' exhibition prototype

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