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Cascades on view at the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Minsk, Belarus

I am excited to have my Cascades collages and accompanying sculptural branches included in an international group exhibition on view through October 30 at the National Center of Contemporary Arts in Minsk, Belarus.
This exhibit is curated by Soude Dadras as part of her curatorial platform, Ongoing Conversation.

My artwork is accompanied by a music piece titled Four Cascades and a Hymn by Douglas Levine with sound design by Angela Baughman.

Cascades on the left, a painting by Larkin Ford is on the right.

Cascades on the left, a painting by Larkin Ford is on the right.

Curator’s Statement

The pandemic has dramatically changed the lives of many of us, but man’s fundamental need for art has remained unchanged. Through art we feel unity. In this difficult time, it is important to be together to preserve our culture - our essence. As part of the international joint mail art * project "Drawn Together +" ("United Together"), organized by the initiative "Ongoing Conversation", artists who recorded in their work the opposition of the art community to the challenges of the global pandemic, were invited to present their works at an exhibition in Belarus. through art to show the power of the human spirit.

The exposition of the exhibition "Drawn Together +" in Minsk consists of three blocks: special square works of textiles created within the framework of the international mail art project, works of artists specially invited to the exhibition by the founder and curator of "Ongoing Conversation" Soude Dadras, and works submitted to the exhibition. artists from different countries.

Artists from Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ghana, Germany, the USA, Jordan, Iran, Malaysia, Morocco, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Korea, Poland, Russia are taking part in the DrawnTogether + exhibition at the National Center for Contemporary Arts. Turkey, France, Chile, Switzerland and Japan.

The exhibition is the IV edition of the Ongoing Conversation project. Previous exhibitions were held in Turkey, Japan and the United States. Ongoing Conversation is a platform created to display works by artists with different backgrounds in venues around the world, which today represents more than 1,000 artists from 23 countries.


Cascades, installation view

Cascades, installation view

My work was inspired by walks in the park near my home during the quarantine and observing the pebbles along the trail turning different colors in the rain.

To learn more about this exhibit, visit @ongoingconversation on Instagram.