“Where is Your Body”  will be exhibited at  SOMArts from April 25th, 2024 – May 24th, 2024.  Curated by Delaney Chieyen Holton, “Where is Your Body” gathers women/trans/queer artists of API diasporic experience engaged in practices of the body to explore questions of labor, memory, and desire. “Where is Your Body”, addresses the body – in its capacities and vulnerabilities – as a site of violence and resistance. The participating artists: Nibha Akireddy, Erina Alejo, Sholeh Asgary, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Edi Dai, Ruka Kashiwagi, Private Practice Collection (via Kayla Tange and Hailey Loman), Thuong Hoai Tran, Kim Ye, Learning Palestine, and Rachel Youn, denaturalize and historicize the intersection between race and gender in relation to the body, showcasing how systems of disenfranchisement are interlocked, co-constituting, and mutually sustaining. Their work maps the bounds and limits of the body and charts attempts at reaching beyond, towards a future, or each other.

This exhibition features a 2024 version of Qualia (2015, 2010) by Kim Ye, an immersive video installation that both isolates and displays the viewers’ desiring body. Each time Qualia is shown, the video component is reshot, mapping the artist’s changing face of desire.

 

“Where is Your Body” is part of the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s 27th Annual United States of Asian American Festival, Be(long)ing Here. See virtual tour of the exhibition at the bottom of this page.