Past Resident
2023: Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Artist

Hellen Ascoli

Hellen Ascoli creates multidisciplinary works that weave through memory and sensation. Working primarily with a backstrap loom, Ascoli situates herself within concepts of proprioception, affordances, and translation.

Hellen Ascoli has exhibited works at Art Pace, Texas; Contemporary Art Center, Ohio; and La Nueva Fàbrica, Guatemala, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Hellen Ascoli: The World Upside Down

Through August 1

2023 ISCP Benefit Auction

October 3–October 17, 2023

North Brooklyn Cultural Syndicate Open House Day

May 19, 2023, 1–7pm

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

This interactive sound table is an exploration of the relationship between text and textile, particularly through the oral tradition.

Hellen Ascoli, The Corners Speak, 2022, collaboration with Karl Williamson, textile, sound and wood, 63 × 63 × 20 in. (160.02 × 160.02 × 50.8 cm).

E como leer sets up a E or comb warp to explore forms of writing and reading. This textile is activated by the viewer by running the crank and focusing in on the detail of the warp.

Hellen Ascoli, E como Leer, 2022, collaboration with Karl Williamson, textile and wood, 10 × 63 × 12 in. (25.4 × 160.02 × 30.48 cm).

As the pandemic hit in 2020, and I was stuggling to keep in contact with my family members and community from Guatemala, my friend and collaborator Negma Coy asked me via text message ¿Achike’ rub’anon ak’u’x?, meaning ¿How is your heart? in Kaqchikel.

Hellen Ascoli, ¿How is your heart?, 2021, textile and wood, 236 × 196 in. (599.44 × 497.84 cm).

As I began my research for CIEN TIERRAS, I read “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler, for the first time. As I was reading, listening to the news, living through lock-down, and constantly thinking of a past-present-future I was drawn to her ideas of God and Chang

Hellen Ascoli, We Shaped Soft Gods Here, 2021, collaboration with Karl Williamson, textile, wooden molds and kinetic components, 80 × 275 × 2 in. (203.2 × 698.5 × 5.08 cm).

Cien Tierras features different configurations of the Spanish root word ‘tierra’ rendered in brown and navy thread with red, blue, and yellow horizontal stripes. The brocaded text features poetic uses of literary wordplay devices including malapropism, orthography and idioms to demonstrate the pliability of language and the complexity of translation. The upper panel reads ‘en cielo’ or ‘in the sky’, which is abutted with the phrases ‘en tierro’ and ‘des tierro’ which translates to ‘in the land’ and ‘of the land’ respectively. However, when spoken sounds like ‘entierro’ resembles the Spanish word for burial or grave. ‘Destierro’ means to be pushed away or exiled. The lower panel depicts the phrase ‘sin tierra’ which literally means without land or landless. The title, ‘cien tierras’, connotes the xpression ‘one hundred lands,’ though tierra could also signify earth, ground or world.

Hellen Ascoli, Cien Tierras, 2021, textile and wood, 100 × 80 in. (254 × 203.2 cm).

Residents from United States

Aryel René Jackson

United States

Vision Fund

Studio #305

Hanae Utamura

Japan, United States

Every Page Foundation

Studio #201

Akeema-Zane

United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Vision Fund

Studio #203

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Ireland

Past Resident
2023: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin

Artist

Aideen Barry

Aideen Barry is a multidisciplinary artist whose modes of expression include performance, moving image, and sculptural manifestations. Using visual tricks to intensify the suspension of reality, Barry explores subjects such as domestic labor, examinations of class, otherness, environmental change, and human vulnerability.

Aideen Barry has exhibited work at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Kazten Center at American University Museum, Washington D.C.; and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Aideen Barry and Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia

March 14, 2023, 6–7pm

Aideen Barry, Béal (All Silent but for the Buzzing ) & The Monachopsis Drawing Editions, 2021, sound and architectural installation, dimensions variable.

Aideen Barry, oblivion / seachmalltacht / ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ, 2021, video Installation with sound, 15:38 min.

Aideen Barry, Listen Liquid, 2021, multichannel video projection, sound, wall and floor drawing , dimensions variable.

Aideen Barry, Klostės, 2022, film, 67 min.

Aideen Barry, Klostės, 2021, multichannel video installation and sound, 15:38 min.

Residents from Ireland

Sonia Shiel

Ireland

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin

2014

Aileen Murphy

Ireland

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin

2023

Celina Muldoon

Ireland

Arts Council of Ireland

2023

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Sweden

Past Resident
2023: IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists

Artist

Hanni Kamaly

Hanni Kamaly is a research-based artist working with sculpture, video and performance whose practice examines the political construction of identity throughout history using layered research and a material approach. Kamaly investigates who has the authority to write and display history, as well as how these histories are recorded, embodied, and collected. Kamaly’s works weave together fragments to expose visual culture, ethnography, and history, exposing patriarchal, colonial, racist, and nationalist structures that still exist today.

Hanni Kamaly has exhibited work at Accelerator, Stockholm; 34th Bienal de São Paulo; and Index – Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, among others.