黑料不打烊

We use our hands to support is a group exhibition and a multi-layered project visioned and gathered by Artist/Educator/Curator Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, a member of Southern Exposure鈥檚 Curatorial Council. When crafting this show, Lukaza was deeply inspired by the strategies that each of these artists hold in their practices. Their strategies, thoughts and work have guided the direction of the show. The overarching vision was to imagine an exhibition guided by the work of Fronteristxs Collective, Amanda Curreri, Kimi Hanauer, and Sam Vernon, living side by side. 

We use our hands to support is a project, a manifesto, a tool for survival and continuing, a lens to see the world through, a cape, a mask, a screen, a pattern, a disguise, a pile of your favorite books, an abolitionist, a banner, a scream, a stack, a non-hierarchical space, a living organism. Activist, educator, thinker Grace Lee Boggs, asks us, 鈥渨ho is going to begin this new story?鈥� and we answer that we need new language, we need to dig deep, pull up the unseen histories, look into each other鈥檚 eyes, tear all the walls down, center liberatory practices, use our hands to reimagine everything. This space commits to beginning this story and visioning that another world is possible, in honor of Grace, and in solidarity with the folks caged in detention centers, jails and prisons.  Over the course of a month, we will build this space together. With our hands, our hard work, our bodies, our chosen family, our new family, our neighborhoods, and with our loved ones far away. We look forward to building with you.