Upcoming Exhibit
Upcoming Exhibit
Re-Homing Instincts Exhibit
We’re pleased to inform you that some of the Bi-Lingering letters we have received will be showcased for the first time as part of the Re-Homing Instincts exhibit.
Curated by Frida Cano
April 22 - June 17, 2023 Propellor Gallery 18th Street Arts Center Airport Campus 3026 Airport Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90405
Dear Bi-Lingering
What does your language feel like resting on your tongue? Are you Bi-Lingering—living between languages or cultures? We invite bilingual people (of any and all proficiencies) to share your story of expressing yourself in more than one language by writing a letter to “Dear Bi-Lingering.” As a thank you for your participation, artists Labkhand Olfatmanesh and Gazelle Samizay will mail you a limited edition art card!
To participate in “Dear Bi-Lingering,” fill out this sign-up form to receive a “Dear Bi-Lingering” Letter Kit by mail. Sign up before letter kits run out!
From the submitted letters, Labkhand and Gazelle will create visual art that captures and celebrates the experience of being a Bi-Lingerer.
Bi-Lingering is an extension of Labkhand and Gazelle’s ongoing collaborative project Woven, which uses their experiences as women of Iranian and Afghan heritage to look at the way cultural expectations and memory transcend borders.
It may be a broken, a shrill mother tongue
But I’m raising my daughter in my ill mother tongue.
Translating Seuss and Nagara on the fly
“Siya-o-safeyd” I’m fine, but at “zebra” I’m still, mother tongue.
The air is English, the water too
How will you get past her gill, Mother Tongue?
— From "Ghazal for Mothers and Tongues" by Sahar Muradi
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