Edwin neal hand cut2/9/2024 ![]() Thus, to completely comprehend undocumentedness, and in the words of Federico Cuatlacuatl, one must consider undocumentedness a spectrum. Borrowing Jose Antonio Vargas’ logic, there are eleven million ways of being undocumented in the United States. Like all groups, we are not a monolith.” Of those forty-five million immigrants, and as per the Department of Homeland Security, eleven million immigrants currently residing in the United States are unauthorized. In the words of Jose Antonio Vargas, “If there are an estimated 45 million immigrants living in America, then there are 45 million ways of being an immigrant in America. There is no easy way to define undocumentedness and no single definition that stands true across the globe. January 27 - February 17 Aesthetics of UndocumentednessĬurated by Erika Hirugami, MA. Within these contexts, one finds that the act of remembering and forgetting, preserving and refusing-making into refuse-are often intimately connected, and the boundary that divides them more fluid. These investigations extend to the collective feminine that gathers memory, its objects and stories, the relationship between trauma and memory, and the intergenerational archive in contrast to that of the institution. What remains, and what takes the place of an archive that is itself limiting and limited in how and what it preserves? Generously supported by the UVA Department of Art and the UVA Arts Council.Īnna Hogg is an artist and filmmaker whose work addresses the relationship between memory and the body archive. The viewer is invited to read the space, its images and its objects, differently, through failure. One may only read the traces of memory backward, through absence. Feeling around in the dark, one still senses its presence, but like the edges of burnt paper, it crumbles upon the slightest disturbance. This collective work is posed alongside a film that imagines the perspective of an archive as it destroys-or erases-itself. Uncertainty surges as faded ink-stains appear on the quilt only after being soaked in water. Women in the artist’s family do the labor of preservation, as they hand-wash a quilt made by her great-grandmother, imagining and remembering fragments of its story. Golnar Adili | Michael Bogin | Erin Crowe | Ellen Driscoll | Ellen Gallup | Rachel Lane | Kera MacKenzie | Andrew Mausert-Mooney | Sarah Morrison | Kristen Nyce-Reed | Danielle Riede | Martha Saunders | Sandy Williams IVĮvery bit unrending, unreading is a collection of works that examines the tension between that which is archivable and that which is not. This show is curated by Professor Schoyer, who has taught introductory and advanced drawing, as well as painting, in UVA’s Studio Art Program for many years. Supported by the UVA Arts Council and the UVA Department of Artįormer art students, colleagues, and mentors of Elizabeth Schoyer are combining energy, moving through the air, connecting creative visions, and converging in Ruffin Gallery for six weeks this fall. Opening Reception: Friday, August 25, 5:00-7:00pm Any questions may be directed to Emily Daniel ![]() We are not accepting proposals for the Ruffin Gallery at this time. In addition to the Ruffin Gallery, student and visiting artist work is frequently shown in the RuffStuff and Media Galleries on the first floor of Ruffin Hall. ![]() The openings are important occasions when the whole studio program gathers to celebrate the successful completion of the major. Every spring the gallery is the site of the Fourth-Year Thesis and Aunspaugh Fellows Exhibitions. The gallery hosts a show by each year's Ruffin Distinguished Artist-in-Residence. Students are involved with the production and installation of these exhibitions and gain valuable experience in the handling and hanging of important works of all types. Each year the gallery hosts four to six exhibits that serve as the University's most important showcase for contemporary art and are an integral part of the Studio Art experience. Since 2008, the Ruffin Gallery is an active part of the Studio Art program.
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