Curated by Angela Kim & Aisha Tandiwe Bell

“The earth carries the memories built on the back of oppressed/unrepresented people and their buried bones throughout the world. At Ma Lai, Vietnam, I walk on the site of a massacre, where the lives of hundreds of women and babies were taken in revenge. I touch the soil. At the Holocaust Museum, I look at the hundreds of pairs of eyeglasses, shoes gold-capped teeth, and briefcases and I wonder who they belonged to. In Rwanda, a young woman tells how she searched for her family at a mass burial site. I have worked in Cambodia for 8 years with young girls who were former sex slaves, wondering who enslaved them and walked the killing fields, with their fragments of what once were human beings. I have witnessed the burial of young girls who have suffered genital cutting.
Will it every stop? These works are meant to slow us down, make us look closely at our world, silence us for the moment.”

The Unknown/Unnamed, and The Unspeakable series address concerns with war, displacement, violence towards women, poverty, genocide and slavery.

Sana Musasama has traveled and exhibited extensively.Solo exhibitions include: Gallery 43, Paris, France; The Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York; Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Nancy Dryfloss Gallery, Union, NJ; Meta House; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; June Kelly Gallery, NYC; Robert Hudges Gallery, San Antonio, TX; Swarthmore College, PA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC

Residencies include: Soaring Gardens, PA; The Clay Art Center, NY; Givat Haviva, Israel; The Cite Des Arts, France; Studio Exhibition Program at Dartmouth, NH; The European Ceramic Center, Holland; Wadastick Art Center, Mexico; La Suerate Studio; Baltimore Clay Works; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Tuscarora International Institute

Visitors will need to get a “guest pass” from the main entrance (next to the enormous black cube) at Hunter College on the corner of 68th St. and Lexington Ave. You may then use any entrance to reach the Thomas Hunter Project Space, located in the basement of the Thomas Hunter Building.

Visitation by appointment the weeks of October 26-November 14th also available.

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