Ford Foundation Gallery puts artists of Asian-Caribbean heritage back in the spotlight
New York’s Ford Foundation Gallery is reopening its doors for the first time in more than two years with a ground-breaking exhibition that returns the spotlight to four female artists of Asian-Caribbean heritage. Curated by Trinidadian scholar and artist Andil Gosine, everything weakens into a ruin features Chinese-Jamaican Margaret Chen; Indo-Trinidadian Wendy Nanan; Indo-Guadeloupean Kelly Sinnapah Mary; and Andrea Chung (born in the United States to Jamaican and Trinidadian parents). All of them share a line of domestic relations, and each has created “hybrid creatures that are part plant and part human” from paint, papier-mâché, and foraged materials such as wood and shell. It is a process that explores – and deplores – the destructive impacts of colonialism, while celebrating the ways in which migrants harness the creativity of the natural world to reimagine, reinvent, rebuild, survive…and thrive.
Everything weakens into a ruin runs until August 20.
