ELEMENTAL: Adama Delphine Fawundu and Hong Hong

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Brooklyn, NY (April 14, 2022) — Ortega y Gasset Projects proudly presents a two-person exhibition ELEMENTAL: Adama Delphine Fawundu and Hong Hong, curated by artist and OyG co-director Leeza Meksin. The works in the show explore ancestral histories and myths, diaspora and the role that the elements play in the creation of art. Opening May 8, 2022, and running through June 18, 2022, the exhibition features a large-scale paper-pulp painting installation by Hong Hong and new paper/textile and video works by Adama Delphine Fawundu.

Born in Brooklyn, NY to parents from Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, West Africa, Fawundu draws on her ancestral heritage evoking resistance through spiritualism and mysticism while contending with issues of forced diaspora, dispossession and longing. Hong, who was born in Hefei, Anhui, China and immigrated to the United States at the age of ten, sees her process of working outdoors on large paper pours as a way of communing through time and space with her ancestors and with the world at large. Embodying the power of nature and the idea of landscape as a body, both artists work on sites that are meaningful in terms of their process and family histories. Healing through art and the construction of new self-determined narratives are at the center of Fawundu’s practice, while Hong collaborates with weather and the elements to create her monumental paper pulp paintings.

An opening reception with the artists will take place on Sunday, May 8, 2-5 PM, concurrently with an opening reception for a site-specific installation in the Skirt: Weakness Against the Silence by Zhenya Plechkina in collaboration with Misha Sklar vydavy sindikat, curated by artist and OyG co-director Zahar Vaks. 

For more information, please contact Leeza Meksin or Zahar Vaks at oygprojects@gmail.com, or visit www.oygprojects.com/upcoming