NOVEMBER 21 - DECEMBER 4, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION: SUN., NOV. 24, 4:30-7PM

FLUID FORMS

KASSANDRA KHALIL

This collection of visual meditations by Kassandra Khalil is inspired by The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies, in which author Tiffany Lesobo King describes the (im)material influence of Black and Native experiences on Turtle Island. How both thought, culture and relationship to place were upset and tumbled, strengthen and continues to reform as descendants navigate the legacies of colonization and present state of capitalism. King describes this with the metaphor of shoals, shifting semi-liquid/semi-solid compositions of sand, rock, biomater and water. Shoals present a danger to the certain trajectory of heavy hulled, determined ships, while providing a safe enclave to the some of the most fragile living matter. The nature of shoals is one of consistent movement, responsivity, but also character. We see the ripple of the surface’s water and can anticipate where we might see the strengthening of consensus under tow.

about the artist:

Kassandra Khalil is an artist and cultural organizer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her visual art is often autobiographical, using simple line drawings to explore how gestures evoke personal and cultural memory. By indulging speculative and new materialist ideas about the natural world, she hopes to deepen social thinking on human relationships to place, history, and concepts of domination and progress.

GALLERY HOURS:

Installations are on view 24/7 through the Plus/Space gate, and Thurs.-Sun., 1-6pm.

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Crystal Hudson, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Joseph Robert Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.