INTRODUCTION
The traces of our lives are made up of memories that connect us to the source.
“[W]Here Now” reflects on the role of water as a conduit to the essence of our lives. This water constantly flows to map the pathways of our identities and remind us that we all come from somewhere.
Water is a vessel and connection to the source of all life that carries our stories, histories, and power. But where do we go to remember? And how do we know the importance of the importance of things we are re-membering? Because not all memories come from us, but a collective and generational pool of experience.
Our exhibition space becomes this site of memory where we conjure up what is already in us to better understand our place in the world.
Like Toni Morrison puts it –– all water has perfect memory and etched within us all are rivers, lakes, and seas that are trying to get back where they were – The source.
Just like water our artists are mapping out and activating different memories through creating. Neither time nor centuries of oppression have been, and can erase Africans’ true heritage. We’ll always find a way.
DATES: 11 - 17 June OPEN DAILY: 10 - 6PM
“[W]Here Now” reflects on the role of water as a conduit to the essence of our lives. This water constantly flows to map the pathways of our identities and remind us that we all come from somewhere.
Water is a vessel and connection to the source of all life that carries our stories, histories, and power. But where do we go to remember? And how do we know the importance of the importance of things we are re-membering? Because not all memories come from us, but a collective and generational pool of experience.
Our exhibition space becomes this site of memory where we conjure up what is already in us to better understand our place in the world.
Like Toni Morrison puts it –– all water has perfect memory and etched within us all are rivers, lakes, and seas that are trying to get back where they were – The source.
Just like water our artists are mapping out and activating different memories through creating. Neither time nor centuries of oppression have been, and can erase Africans’ true heritage. We’ll always find a way.
DATES: 11 - 17 June OPEN DAILY: 10 - 6PM
LAURA ARMINDA KINGSLEY
Laura Arminda Kingsley was born in the USA in 1984 to Dominican parents. She lives and works in Dübendorf. Kingsley is an independent visual artist who works in a variety of a variety of media, including painting, animation and sculpture.
Laura’s work captures the essence of humanity as a form of healing from past realities while using it to connect with her African ancestral heritage. Kingsley's reference to oceanic life forms is a means of resistance to the advancing pollution of the Caribbean Sea while addressing the enduring legacy of colonialist notions of race and gender in our society.
She holds an Associates in Fine Arts from Chavón, a Bachelor of Science degree from The City University of New York – Hunter College and a Masters in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts.
Exhibition participation include Sculpture in the City in London, at the 22nd Grenchen Triennale in Grenchen, at the CICA Museum in Seoul, Suspended Matter at the Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, as well as the exhibitions Art as Connection at the Aargauer Kunsthaus and shared spaces in change at the Kornhausforum in Bern. Her work was awarded the Dorothy & George Saxe Fellowship in 2012 and 2014, the Kunstatelier-Stipendium of the city of Dübendorf and the LOCUS Micro-Grant 2021 award.
Laura’s work captures the essence of humanity as a form of healing from past realities while using it to connect with her African ancestral heritage. Kingsley's reference to oceanic life forms is a means of resistance to the advancing pollution of the Caribbean Sea while addressing the enduring legacy of colonialist notions of race and gender in our society.
She holds an Associates in Fine Arts from Chavón, a Bachelor of Science degree from The City University of New York – Hunter College and a Masters in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts.
Exhibition participation include Sculpture in the City in London, at the 22nd Grenchen Triennale in Grenchen, at the CICA Museum in Seoul, Suspended Matter at the Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, as well as the exhibitions Art as Connection at the Aargauer Kunsthaus and shared spaces in change at the Kornhausforum in Bern. Her work was awarded the Dorothy & George Saxe Fellowship in 2012 and 2014, the Kunstatelier-Stipendium of the city of Dübendorf and the LOCUS Micro-Grant 2021 award.
