In using traditional craft and bright colors to examine complex issues of technology, I hope to open analogue spaces that allow us to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future.
Seasons of Kinship
Seasons of Kinship, a dual show by Cyrah Dardas and Mother Cyborg, explores the power, temporality, and ebb and flow of relations within our ecosystem. Using natural materials grown by each artist, this exhibition is a testament to the intertwining and understanding between humans, land, and the ecosystem. A dinner table, a symbol of reverence, honors the lost knowledge and hidden stories in plant life. Using natural dyes and paints in the tapestries and paintings reflects the reciprocity and symbiotic practices our human and non-human kin can create in relation. The artists' work is a radical yet inspiring way of imagining a generative and knowledge-sharing approach to our relationships with each other and the environment.
Let Go, Let Techno
An exhibition of 16 quilts that dive into the nature of our quests for freedom that can only be nurtured by nightfall. These quilts examine individual visions of freedom through a collective framework that when we transform ourselves, we transform the world around us. That when we LET GO, LET TECHNO on the dancefloor, we tap into our collective potential opening the possibility for that transformation to occur.
Crafting Our Digital Future
Featured in the UM Stamps Gallery, May 2022.
“Detroit-based artist, musician, and educator Mother Cyborg (aka Diana J. Nucera) debuts a series of quilts that references our relationship to digital technologies, data-mining and security in the age of the Internet. Using bright colors, geometric shapes and patterns, Crafting Our Digital Legacy opens up analogue and tactile spaces that invite audiences to reflect upon our collective relationship with internet technologies, identity, legacy, and the future. Mother Cyborg draws from over 15 years experience as a community organizer in Detroit, MI where individuals gained access and agency to (re-)build their neighborhoods, and run their own Internet service providers. In this exhibition, the artist expands her artist self through fiber works where she addresses critical issues of surveillance, data collection, the redaction of love to likes, and the complexity of identity within it all.”
by Srimoyee Mitra
