one never remembers alone

We are the memories we don’t remember, which live in us, which we feel, which make us sing and dance and pray the way we do, feelings from memories that flare and bloom unexpectedly…

—Tommy Orange, There There

one never remembers alone: visual transmissions of kinship and memory examines the ways that memory can be transmitted through generations, both temporally and spatially. The exhibition brings together artists whose work considers the notion that one’s past can be passed on to another. Employing archival interventions in media such as photography, photomontage, video, printmaking, and installation, these artists activate iterations of memory and formations of kinship, building bridges between themselves and their personal and/or collective lineages.

The title one never remembers alone references how the concepts of collective memory, diaspora, and cultural identity function as social phenomena. This exhibition interrogates the ways memories are formed through the bonds of kinship related to the experience of dispossession and diasporic movement. As a corollary, one never remembers alone also explores rememory, as coined by Toni Morrison in her novel Beloved. Rememory refers to the recollection of an obscured memory that can be similar to a haunting, an uncanny sensation of both familiarity and unfamiliarity.one never remembers alone

Artists in the exhibition include: Amal Amer, Beatriz Cortez, Maria Dumlao, Sebastián Hernández, Ann Le, Joiri Minaya, Boone Nguyen and Adee Roberson.