Leila Weefur: Noise and Thirst
Opening Reception: May 19, 2018 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates: May 19 - June 8, 2018 Hours by Appointment
Gallery Hours: by appointment
Location: 235 Broderick Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
“If white is all frequencies at once, Black is the color of silence.”
–MEGHAN NEAL
Noise + Thirst is a video installation by Leila Weefur. It presents Blackness as an inhabitant of the space between noise & silence and thirst & satisfaction. The accompanying sound collage, a gestalt of Black masculinity, asks how closely must we scrutinize our Blackness to bear witness to a naturally occurring contrast? The installation will be accompanied by a set of risograph prints and takeaway chapbooks.
About the Artist
Leila Weefur lives and works in Oakland, CA. Weefur received her MFA from Mills College in 2016.
With a multidisciplinary practice, Weefur tackles the complexities of phenomenological Blackness through video, installation, printmaking, and lecture-performances. Using materials and visual gestures to access the tactile memory, she explores the abject, the sensual and the nuance found in the social interactions and language with which our bodies have to negotiate space. She is a recipient of the Hung Liu award, the Murphy & Cadogan award, and recently completed an artist fellowship at Kala Art Institute. Weefur has exhibited her work in local and national galleries including Southern Exposure and SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco, Betti Ono in Oakland, BAMPFA and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York.
She is the Audio/Video, Editor In Chief at Art Practical and the co-director of The Black Aesthetic.
Leila Weefur: Noise and Thirst
Opening Reception: May 19, 2018 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates: May 19 - June 8, 2018 Hours by Appointment
Gallery Hours: by appointment
Location: 235 Broderick Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
“If white is all frequencies at once, Black is the color of silence.”
–MEGHAN NEAL
Noise + Thirst is a video installation by Leila Weefur. It presents Blackness as an inhabitant of the space between noise & silence and thirst & satisfaction. The accompanying sound collage, a gestalt of Black masculinity, asks how closely must we scrutinize our Blackness to bear witness to a naturally occurring contrast? The installation will be accompanied by a set of risograph prints and takeaway chapbooks.
About the Artist
Leila Weefur lives and works in Oakland, CA. Weefur received her MFA from Mills College in 2016.
With a multidisciplinary practice, Weefur tackles the complexities of phenomenological Blackness through video, installation, printmaking, and lecture-performances. Using materials and visual gestures to access the tactile memory, she explores the abject, the sensual and the nuance found in the social interactions and language with which our bodies have to negotiate space. She is a recipient of the Hung Liu award, the Murphy & Cadogan award, and recently completed an artist fellowship at Kala Art Institute. Weefur has exhibited her work in local and national galleries including Southern Exposure and SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco, Betti Ono in Oakland, BAMPFA and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York.
She is the Audio/Video, Editor In Chief at Art Practical and the co-director of The Black Aesthetic.
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