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measured by hand
August 15 - September 28, 2024
Duo exhibition featuring Vitória Monteiro and Lan “Florence” Yee at Artspeak Gallery. Curated by Cassia Powell and dani neira (Dirty Dishes Collective).
Documentation by Sophia English
Curatorial Text
measured by hand is a duo exhibition featuring the works of artists Vitória Monteiro and Lan “Florence” Yee. Exploring the architectures of memory, the exhibition considers how we hold and build space for personal and cultural histories.
measured by hand employs the concept of a vessel as a nonlinear and intangible tool for gathering, holding, and knowledge sharing. Monteiro conceptualizes notions of rest and cultural narratives, and Yee articulates the reverberations of grief; together, the installation recalls notions of domestic interiors and land anchored by material objects. Wooden support structures, fabric hangings, sculpture, and poetic fragments traverse subjects of cultural burial practices and queer abuse. Tender and tactile, the works reflect on what we do with memory that is difficult, or incomplete.
If memory is a vessel we give form to, what are the architectures we build out of necessity? In giving the exhibition porous walls, measured by hand builds a vessel that holds without containment. As a site of commemoration and possibility, it asks what might grow from sharing in feeling and knowledge.