2023

Memory Work is a group exhibition featuring works by Lotus Laurie Kang, Jeneen Frei Njootli, and Esteban Ramón Pérez. The show also includes a presentation of poetry organized in collaboration with writer and curator danilo machado, featuring poems by Natalie Diaz, Jasmine Gibson, and Jennif(f)er Tamayo.

Focusing on labor practices that are passed down between generations, Memory Work explores the ways Kang, Pérez, and Frei Njootli call on familial materials to forge connections with ancestral memory, land, and work. Sometimes this inheritance is quite literal, through taking on a family business or skill; in other cases it is more subtle, replicating a gesture or movement that feels natural, even inevitable.