BECOMING: Matilda Forsberg, Kwesi O. Kwarteng, Layqa Nuna Yawar
OUT LEFT ART
May 5, 2022 - June 4, 2022
PRESS RELEASE
Three visual artists across different parts of the globe compose a visual language of migration and its experience of fleeting memories, adapting a multicultural identity and ancestral archiving.
Becoming is a study of the migrant city of Newark, NJ, the residence of the trio of artists’ studios. New Jersey’s populous city of international migrants is a microcosm of globalization.
Becoming is an exploration of a cross-continental cultivation of identity. It’s a tale of how enriching cultural exchange is in a community.
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Origin: Sweden
Matilda Forsberg's paintings are replicates of family photographs and recurring dream settings of familiar terrains in mystified dream sequences of fleeting ancestral memories.
Image credit: Matilda Forsberg
Origin: Ghana
Kwesi O. Kwarteng's fabric paintings utilize various culturally significant fabrics and sewing methods to compose topographical maps and multicultural flags in a tale of a multi-cultural identity brought about by globalization.
Image credit: Teolinda Azzizi
Origin: Ecuador
Layqa Nuna Yawar's iconography paintings are of ancestral pride rendering Indigenous symbolism and mythologies in the continued legacy of diasporic people.
Image credit: Chrystofer Davis
SELECTED WORKS
OUT LEFT ART
Out Left Art was a collaborative exhibition program between the collective Manufacturer's Village Artists in East Orange, NJ, and Luma Art Advisory. Out Left Art exhibited artists based in New Jersey, “left” of the New York art mecca. The program aimed to broaden the exposure of phenomenal artists of the Garden State by curating thoughtful exhibitions that told stories of our communities.