Water Marks Seeping Through Concrete

Water Marks Seeping Through Concrete challenges conventional narratives on marginalized identities by delving into spaces, languages, and everyday lives shaped by Western hegemony. These historical narratives eliminate the specificities of individuals, cultures, and histories that don’t belong to “the norm,” leaving space only for further marginalization. The proposed exhibition brings together a collection of creative, adaptive, yet persistent practices that critically examine how those false perceptions about othered beings, such as immigrants and queer individuals, have been perpetuated by authorities. The featured artists interweave layers of power dynamics surrounding naming, physical labor, and institutional space. The exhibition presents creative and poetic approaches to reappropriating remnants from the past and scaffolding alternatives to the concrete norms of contemporary American society.