“Storying” Exhibition

Andrew Freedman Home

[Image: Zachary Fabri "Jimmy's Hand" (2021) Courtesy of the artist. Ritual Cloth no.1 cotton detail view ]

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Residency Unlimited (RU) present Storying at the Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx. The culminating exhibition of the 2021 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program, Storying features works by Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess, Elvira Clayton, Zachary Fabri and Helina Metaferia. During their residencies, the artists focused on the development of multidisciplinary projects around the history of artists in Southeast Queens, prison abolition, Black liberation activist archives and the largest slave auction in the history of the United States. The exhibition is curated by RU Guest Curator Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger.

The exhibition title Storying is borrowed from The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness (2012), in which the author Kevin Young speaks to “a shadow book—a book that we don’t have, but know of, a book that may haunt the very book we have in our hands,” and to the innovation of storying which “calls into question our very notion of progress, central to modernity and the post-industrial age—instead, it focuses on process.” Through oral histories, the epistolary form, ritual vessels and a performative time capsule of our current moment, the works in Storying recall lesser-known events and accounts that have yet to be written through processes that yield emotional and political solidarity while honoring the past.