SIXTEENSIXTEEN.NET compiles floating thoughts, illustration, and research materials with reference to the traditional newspaper format. Separately, the contributors reflect on Black interiority, the body, gender presentation, and the social parade of normalcy.
Facilitated by Studio1616, an emergent studio and exhibition space and collaborative endeavour of Aaron Jones and Timothy Yanick Hunter. In their collaborative project, Studio1616, Aaron Jones and Timothy Yanick Hunter merge their distinct artistic voices, creating a platform that is interested in multidisciplinary art making, the unorthodox, and peer-to-peer sharing and collaboration . This fusion embodies the essence of their artistic interests, where they aim to support experimental ambitions, new conceptual and material approaches, and the futurity of cultural dissemination.
SIXTEENSIXTEEN.NET is an accompanying publication to Shedding Heaviness, an exhibition presented in Gallery 44's Main Gallery from March 28 – June 1, 2024 and Memories And Premonitions, an exhibition presented at Studio1616 from November 29, 2024 – February 24, 2025.
Shedding Heaviness is an allusive observation on the passage of life, spirituality, the body, and our inner self. Through their distinct and divergent approaches to photography, sound and installation, Julianna A.S., Delali Cofie and Kourtney Jackson experiment in describing these etheric, intangible states. The three artists prompt us to consider the in-between and the outer self while also reflecting, embracing and exploring the unknowable.
Memories And Premonitions gathers the practice of three artists reflecting on physical and spiritual temporalities, autoscopic phenomena and transcending the body.
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