Hello everyone,

On behalf of the entire team, I would like to warmly invite you to join us this evening live from NYC via Zoom (7p ET / 4p PT) for our weekly free and interactive tour. 

#131 Considering Art: Considering Cargo - featuring urgent work by Serge Alain Nitegeka.

Upon first impressions, Serge Alain Nitegeka's (he/him) installations and paintings appear to be purely abstract, concerned with line, colour and space. However, these works are deeply symbolic, confronting the viewer with issues of forced migration and a world divided by impenetrable borders and invisible frontiers.

Combining painting, sculpture and drawing, Nitegeka bisects spaces to choreograph the viewer's movements.In his paintings, bold black lines of acrylic paint divide canvases into fragmented landscapes of abstract colour, suggesting a journey met by constant barriers and disruptions, while immersive installations present the viewer with the challenge of physically navigating them. These works speak of the physical and conceptual conditions involved with living in an in-between state, as experienced by countless migrants and asylum seekers around the world. With each body of work, Nitegeka draws from his personal memories which form the narratives underlying his compositions. The destabilizing sense of being confronted by physical or perceptual obstacles becomes symbolic of a migratory perspective of a world viewed from the outer edge of freedom.

In this tour, we embark on some close looking.

Together we ask: What do you see?

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All the very best,

Matthew

You Make This.

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About your facilitator: 

mark (they/them) An Internationally award-winning Creative with 14+ years of experience in Novel & Change Project Leadership, Creative Digital Innovation & Storytelling. To date, their work informs cultural strategy at Arts Council UK, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC History, BBC Learning and BBC Radio), the Beaney Museum, Canterbury City Council, GOV.UK, Kent County Council, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Tate Galleries, Artists Space, Bureau of General Services Queer Division, The LGBT Community Center NYC, MAPP International, The New School, The New York Public Library, Village Alliance Inc, Volta Art Fair, Legacy Trust UK, International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020/21 and Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. mark is a proud member of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and an advocate for the transformative power of art and culture for all.

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Together - Let's take another look.

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