What Are We Claiming? Opening Reception

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Join us at The InLiquid Gallery to celebrate the opening of What Are We Claiming? Featuring Cheryl Harper and rod jones ii

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<a href="https://inliquid.org/exhibitions/what-are-we-claiming/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">What Are We Claiming? </a>is an exhibition that highlights two individual’s family histories, and the stories that they inherited, discovered, and imagined. These stories from artists Cheryl Harper and <a href="https://inliquid.org/artist/jones-rod/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">rod jones ii </a>cover the transcontinental slave trade, the modern Black experience, and the Jewish diaspora. To tell these complicated stories, What Are We Claiming? investigates the idea of the family heirloom as a starting place for descendants to investigate the narrative of their lineage, and have a chance to rewrite history previously assumed.Reflecting her background as a historian, Cheryl Harper’s research and work compels the viewer to question where in the spectrum of privilege they and their families reside. Her included series Passages: An Installation in Progress investigates the two stories of her household: her own as a descendant of Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe, and her husband’s as a descendant of French colonists who settled in what is now South Carolina and built a working plantation using enslaved labor. rod jones ii’s, approach is philosophical, meditative, and spiritual. In this new body of work he investigates his family lineage and has made what he refers to as “heirlooms,” which instead of archiving, documenting, and preserving the past, presents possible realities for himself, as a queer Black man, and his ancestors. His work challenges viewers to fundamentally decolonize the way that they even consider their familiar history from one of academic research to one of spiritual research. They are manifestations of spiritual meditation that allow him to honor his ancestor’s power as spiritual beings.By exploring Harper and jones’ histories and the objects that represent it, What Are We Claiming? seeks to explore human movement, power struggles, hierarchical systems, and the opportunity that we have now to rewrite the history that was written by those in power, and we have too long accepted without question.

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What Are We Claiming? Opening Reception

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