October 15 - November 15, 2020
Womxn in Windows
Founded and Curated by Zehra Ahmed
Womxn in Windows 2020
Video Works by Womxn in 15 windows along Chung King Road
Exhibition dates: October 15 - November 15, 2020
The October 17 event is free and open to the public.
We ask all guests to RSVP in order to maintain social distancing guidelines.
AUTOMATA is thrilled to participate in the second annual exhibition of WOMXN IN WINDOWS featuring video works by eight womxn filmmakers and video artists. The public exhibition will be on view 24 hours a day from October 15 - November 15, 2020 in over 15 storefront windows along Chinatown’s Chung King Road in Los Angeles, including Automata's storefront windows.
Artists Christine Yuan, Everlane Moraes, Ja’Tovia Gary, Kilo Kish, Kya Lou, Remie Akl, Rikki Wright, and Sylvie Weber examine the intertwined relationships between culture, religion and society for Womxn in Windows 2020. Guests can watch the videos from the street, accessible to all, and tune in to the audio of each work via a QR code on the window in a socially distant and safe viewing environment. Videos will also be streamed online. Follow @womxinwindows and visit womxninwindows.com for the latest info, public programs, and attendance guidelines.
From Womxn in Windows founder and curator Zehra Ahmed:
"This has been a heavy year for all of us in America and across the world. In the midst of a global pandemic, movements for Black lives and Indigenous sovereignty, environmental disasters, extreme income inequality, mass corruption, dictatorships across countries, religious injustices and ethnic cleansing, an impending election and a cultural revolution, it felt more necessary than ever to produce this year’s exhibition, support artists financially and to continue engaging with audiences not naturally inclined to seek such work out.“
“As an immigrant womxn, I am reminded that I have grown personally because of the people I have encountered, the values that I have learned along the way, and the multiple experiences I have had across cultures, societies, and faiths. These experiences have led me to believe that we all want the same thing; a just and free life where we can all receive equal rights, love and recognition because of who we uniquely are. We are all different and that is our strength.”
Screening In Automata's Windows: ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE by Ja'Tovia Gary
Ja’Tovia Gary is an American artist and filmmaker whose work seeks to liberate the distorted histories through which Black life is often viewed, while fleshing out a nuanced and multivalent Black interiority. Through documentary film and experimental video art, she charts the ways structures of power shape our perceptions around representation, race, gender, sexuality and violence. The artist earned her MFA in Social Documentary Filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
In 2017 Gary was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Filmmaking. Her award-winning films, An Ecstatic Experience and Giverny I (Négresse Impériale) have screened at festivals, cinemas, and institutions worldwide including Edinburgh International Film Festival, The Whitney Museum, Anthology Film Archives, Atlanta Film Festival, the Schomburg Center, MoMa PS1, MoCA Los Angeles, Harvard Film Archives, New Orleans Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival and elsewhere. She has received generous support from Sundance Documentary fund, the Jerome Foundation, Doc Society, among others.
In 2016 Gary participated in the Terra Foundation Summer Residency program in Giverny, France. She was a 2018-2019 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. Gary is a 2019 Creative Capital Awardee and a Field of Vision Fellow.
For more information about WOMXN IN WINDOWS , including biographies of the artists, click HERE.
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