SOFT SPACES: HOME GOING

We debuted a collection of original art pieces called Soft Spaces: Home Going.

This body of work that sits in the in-between, between memory and migration, between here and back home, between feeling like a cultural insider and always being just a little outside of it. As a collective of misfit creatives that share migration, our relationship to home is layered. When we’re away, our accents, our foods, our gestures mark us as Caribbean, but when we return, we’re cousins to our culture, close, but not quite. This project is about holding onto home in the ways we can, through the signs, sounds, and everyday materials that root us. In this next phase, we’re pushing deeper into the textures of belonging. Hand-painted signs and braided hairstyles become wayfinders, markers of direction, of self-determination, of knowing where we’ve been even when the path isn’t clear. Fruits like mango, cocoa, banana, and coconut show up again and again, not just as symbols of sweetness, but as reminders of labor, trade, and the ways our histories are tied to land and movement. We’ll be working with burlap coffee sacks, layering on print, paint, and collage, letting the roughness of the material speak to migration’s frictions, what gets carried, what gets left behind. Our figures, caught in moments of play or rest, challenge the idea that movement always has to be about struggle. Sometimes, migration is joy. Sometimes, it’s just being still and knowing you belong.

If you are interested in purchasing work from this series, email us, sales@mzicar.com for the pricelist and availability.

AR ENHANCEMENT OF ORIGINAL WORKS

We are blending analog and digital processes and experimenting with AR activations of some of the original works.

GALLERY

ABOUT DIAPHANOUS

Diaphanous: In it’s full iteration Diaphanous is a multi room experience. An immersive collection of art telling stories and guiding guests through a whimsical imaginative collection of experiences and material objects. This collection blends art, technology, and history to re-imagine and re-tell stories of the African Diaspora that have been excluded or marginalized due to racial and gender biases. Each offering embodies a theme of something or someone that could only exist now but reframed as if it did exist in a prior time, space, or dimension. we have proken d down this projects into a thematic catagories, Going Places, Ile Omi: House of Water, Soft Spaces and The Bottom End. This group of work is an extension of our Diaphanous series. You can learn more Diaphanous here.