Gulf
2024
On view June 22 – August 31, 2024
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare
NYC
Listen to the Audio Guide for Fractal catastrophes generate new solidarities
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Install photos by Luís Corzo and Susan Behrends Valenzuela
Opening photos by Hatnim Lee
Opening performance by Les Cenelles
Featuring several new experiments, research in progress, and collaborations with Tobechukwu Onwukeme, Mark Mushiva, Mohamad Safa and Les Cenelles. Sign Painting by Dascool. Graphic design by Estudio Herrera.
Special thanks from the artist to Sasha Birman, Frank Dexter Brown, Scott Eustis, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Adrian Lahoud, Godofredo Perreira, Mario Rebolledo Vieyra, Nuno Simoes, Tom Turnbull, Eyal Weizman, Jeanne M. Woods, The Rivers Institute, Amistad Research Center, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Trace the shadow from this world to the other, 2024.
Now, through audiovisual layering, sonic reimagining, and archival recontextualizing, this exhibition envisions a blackout of fossil power across the territories affected by the legacies of Gulf Oil Corporation. This exhibition illustrates the ways in which the planet’s surface, depths, and biosphere have been depleted for the extraction of financial value. Imani maps out the intertwined ways in which the production of oil and gas from the Gulf of Mexico is part of an expansive politico-economic, socio-technological, and cosmological system. This work intricately ties the celestial with the geological, emphasizing the manifold ways in which fossil capitalism perpetuates epistemic, ecological, and economic violence, but also creates the impetus for the formation of fractal solidarity networks among peoples, places, and species branching from Louisiana to Angola to Palestine.
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