KTISIS I: BLUEPRINT Everything Is Common, 2021 - 2022 WHITNEY INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM EXHIBITION Artists Space: 11 Cortlandt alley, May 2022. Visit ARTISTS SPACE for more details.
KTISIS I: BLUEPRINT is a site responsive installation that uses a collection of found nails to model a structure on photosensitive kozo paper that is exposed for eight days to natural light entering the apertures of the gallery. Corresponding to the time it takes to cross the Atlantic Ocean by boat, the long exposure of a new work over 8 days to natural light entering the apertures in Artists Space gallery culminates as a staged “rinse and reveal” performance-lecture on epic poetry, seascapes, labor, migration and blue in the African diaspora. Part of an ongoing series of long exposures that mobilize non-profit exhibition and community spaces into camera obscuras, using the power of photography to shine light on local and global contemporary issues and narratives on the periphery.
Works pictured:
KINSHIP Cyanotype, paper collage, gouache, dyed fabric, holographic vinyl on kozo paper. 60 x 44 inches. 2022
KATABASIS: JOURNEY TO THE NETHERWORLD Cyanotype, watercolor, gold leaf on paper in oak frame 30 x 40 inches. 2022
BEHOLD THE WANDERING MOON Cyanotype, watercolor, on paper in oak frame 11 x 14 inches. 2022
Original design commissioned by the music duo Lion Babe for their 2021 studio Album Rainbow Child
Exhibitions
Blues is a group exhibition curated by Joost Vandebrug that brings together seven pioneering artists from Iran, United States, Belgium, Japan, Sweden, Netherlands and United Kingdom who each explore in their original and uncompromising way the historic photographic process of Cyanotypes.
On view at Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp Belgium July 9 - Sept 4, 2021. Access press release here. Read a recent review of the exhibition ahead of your visit published by the TEHRANTIMES newspaper. Two featured artworks on view (below): Shipwreck, 2020 & On God, 2019.
The Radical Collage: Afrosurrealism and the Repurposed Fabrication of Black Bodies
Curated by Evan Andrew Davis. Featuring works by Suné Woods and Ivan Forde. Syracuse University Art Museum’s Palitz Gallery - 11 East 61st Street NYC. February 03 - April 09 2020
Steered to cultivate an alternative perspective, The Radical Collage: Afrosurrealism and the Repurposed Fabrication of Black Bodies explores notions of breaching consciousness via its contextualization within collage. Mirroring the selected artists, Ivan Forde and Suné Woods the curation of the exhibition utilizes a variety of methods and material which contribute to the inter-sectional navigation of narrative within sociopolitical issues surrounding the reality of being a Black body residing within our current society. Specifically focusing on the endured experiences and sensibilities of Black bodies, how do we cope with the trauma(s) induced by the modernization of the Black American? Is it through newfound skill at creating an entirely different world organically connected to the one in which we reside . . . or via the Black aesthetic in its actual contemporary lived life?
Symposiums
Artist Ivan Forde, Zuckerman Institute Inaugural Education Lab Artist (2020-21) in collaboration with Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute, and The Studio Museum in Harlem presents Studio Lab: ‘shades of blues’ a unique and profound exploration of the intersections between Forde’s art and neuroscience through a virtual workshop and conversation reflecting on 8 months researching memory and instincts with neuroscientists to create original art works
Interviews and Performances
Click above image to read full Interview or, access it HERE!
Click here to view Forde’s virtual sound performance for The Kitchen NYC broadcast!
Founded in 1971, The Kitchen is an internationally acclaimed, non-profit performance and visual arts space located in New York City's Chelsea arts district.
Maake Magazine
Artist interview|Forde
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