Helina Metaferia: When Civilizations Heal
Project for Empty Space is delighted to present When Civilizations Heal, a solo exhibition by Helina Metaferia the PES 800 Broad Street location from May 6, 2025, through August 17, 2025. A reception will be held on Saturday, May 17th, from 5 to 7 pm.
When Civilizations Heal is an interdisciplinary project that imagines the exhibition space as an anthropological site, creating artifacts as art objects, assembled from archives of the last sixty years of activism, with an emphasis on the role that women-identifying people of color have played. Working across a diverse range of mediums, the artist brings together collage, sculpture, printmaking, video performances, and installation as methods for visually articulating the power of organizing as a political, communal, and artistic act. The exhibition also features a work-in-progress preview of a new short documentary film adaptation based on Metaferia鈥檚 practice. Throughout the exhibition, various community programs and local archival research will contribute to a multi-site public artwork that will be revealed at the end of the exhibition, in partnership with the City of Newark鈥檚 Division of Arts and Cultural Affairs.
Project for Empty Space is delighted to present When Civilizations Heal, a solo exhibition by Helina Metaferia the PES 800 Broad Street location from May 6, 2025, through August 17, 2025. A reception will be held on Saturday, May 17th, from 5 to 7 pm.
When Civilizations Heal is an interdisciplinary project that imagines the exhibition space as an anthropological site, creating artifacts as art objects, assembled from archives of the last sixty years of activism, with an emphasis on the role that women-identifying people of color have played. Working across a diverse range of mediums, the artist brings together collage, sculpture, printmaking, video performances, and installation as methods for visually articulating the power of organizing as a political, communal, and artistic act. The exhibition also features a work-in-progress preview of a new short documentary film adaptation based on Metaferia鈥檚 practice. Throughout the exhibition, various community programs and local archival research will contribute to a multi-site public artwork that will be revealed at the end of the exhibition, in partnership with the City of Newark鈥檚 Division of Arts and Cultural Affairs.
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