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From:TheBahamasWeekly.com National Art Gallery (NAGB)
Open Studios + Artist Talk w/ Jeffrey Meris National Art Gallery of the Bahamas Project Space Room Saturday, January 21, 2017 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. As a component of the National Exhibition 8 (NE8), the PS Room will house three special projects starting with Jeffrey Meris' "Asue: 20/20". "Asue: 20/20" is a series of participatory objects, experiences and interventions drawn from the Yorubic tradition. Meris invited 19 people throughout New Providence to interchange objects in response to a prompt or an object he creates. Much like an economic asue, each week one person receives all twenty objects created/exchanged until the cycle is completed and all twenty participants have received an item. This cultural practice of communal saving is quickly dissipating from The Bahamas and the Caribbean Diaspora. Meris examines the cultural institution, while simultaneously building bridges that technology is distancing. The work is also positioned in relation to blackness, as the practice of asue was a form of cultural resistance (re)formed in response to slavery and the aftermath, which prohibited blacks from saving money in banks. Join us on Saturday, Jan 21, from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. for an informal artist talk and an open studios session, where the artist will speak about the genesis of the work with his collaborators.
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