Christian Cruz
Jessi Jones
Curated by Stephen Lapthisophon
October 19, 2019
“…The United States is the land of formal democratic enclosure…”
― Fred Moten
“Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?”
― Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
Project Space
Jessi Jones
“Be Easy” video, 2019
“Sweep the Porch” photos, 2019
Studio 4
Christian Cruz
“Doble Quince” performance installation, (2 hrs), 2019
(performance 3-5PM)