KOULYE A
KOULYE A is Haitian Creole for “now or right now” (implying to be present in the now). KOULYE A brings together emerging curators and emerging media artists and photographers.
KOULYE A situates images of black contemporary artists and contextualizes their responses to current issues facing humanity.
Moving Still, 2021
Trécha Gay Jheneall
opens February 10, 2022
These images are apparitions of reprieve from the remote navigation of what became the new life/living. The consciousness of proximity, movement, and belonging is explored through the sensory invocations of gathering and dance/ing. Through this agency, music invites us to perform in scéance — under the orchestration of Afro diasporic rhythmic incantations that momentarily enjoin our bodies as one. The circumambient art is deliberate in illuminating the Black diasporic histories and present - the impetus for movement; a call and response to action, to pause, and to the ensemble.
SMILES & MOTIONS: TYPE 108
Rayno Malone
opens January 5, 2021
SMILES and MOTIONS: TYPE 108 is both an impromptu proclamation and a therapeutic experience of a young person’s outlook on modern times. As a New Orleans native, Rayno Malone has always been motivated by his hometown and the people in it. Inspired by his tenets of protecting optimism and authenticity, Malone believes in the power of telling and passing down narratives to the ones after us. And to achieve that, he wants to be in the center of what is currently happening; he wants to be a part of the positive retelling of these stories. Malone seized the opportunity to analyze how his generation is handling the life-altering pandemic to remind us that “there is light at the end of the tunnel; that there is always somebody smiling about something.” For Rayno, we are still human and we are allowed to be happy.
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the blue horizontal line: the vision of Dominique McClellan
opens August 13, 2020
the blue horizontal line - the vision of Dominique McClellan captures the absence of performance culture in New Orleans amidst COVID-19. Guided by a creative impulse, McClellan felt called to visit the French Quarter to document this unprecedented time. Born in Mississippi, Actor, Director, and Photographer Dominique McClellan knew from an early age that he wanted to be an artist that created work that reflected the diverse experiences of people from the African Diaspora.
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