PROCESS: Cultivate
PROCESS is an exhibition concept created in collaboration with Marie Cole, Haweya Jama, Ayesha Jordan, and Fotogalleriet’s curatorial fellow Lara Okafor.
Inspired by the cycles of agricultures – Cleanse, Cultivate, and Harvest – PROCESS will unfold over time through artistic interventions, gatherings, and performances.
Artists Ayan Abdi, Javon Bennett, and Walden Walker will use the gallery as an open studio, allowing their practices to evolve in dialogue with the public. The exhibition explores the gallery as an experimental space for creative participation, critical thinking, communal growth, and exchange – centered around Afrodiasporic perspectives.
The second season, Cultivate, will explore the question: What can we water? Plants require nourishment to grow and so do we. Together, we would like to focus on the parts of ourselves, our creative practices, and our communities that need attention and care. Participate in the public programme and visit our open studio artists between Thursday-Sunday during the gallery’s opening hours.
Spring is here and it’s time to sow some seeds. This hybrid performative workshop led by Ayesha Jordan will engage and hopefully entertain you while learning the basics of seed starting. There will be conversations, music, snacks, and most importantly seeds!
Prepare to get your hands a little dirty, and take home your own little plant babies at the end of the session.
The Hibiscus Tea Ritual is an opening ritual that invites participants to honor practices of remembrance—practices that embody continuity between us, the African diaspora, the land, and time.
How do we remember our connections to each other across time and geography? Through this gathering, I will share a practice that blends personal stories with my Guinean heritage. Participants are invited to ground themselves in the present moment while honoring ancestors with a warm cup of hibiscus tea.
This is an opportunity to come together, rest, and reflect—offering a space for communal presence and deep connection.
An event with Ayesha Jordan, Cecilio Orozco-Martinez, and Liselli Grunwald.
Call it first aid, preparedness, or just bag game tight. In this hands-on workshop inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘Carrier Bag Theory’, first aid kits, ‘Go Bags’, and the chaotic world we are living in we’ll create our own emergency/first aid bags for unhinged times.
Don’t be caught out there unmoisturized, unprotected, and unprepared—have the tools needed to care for your mind, body, and soul when it’s time. Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready.
The workshop is divided into three parts:
1. Building your Bag: Assemble your bag with the essentials
2. Clothing Repair with Cecilio Orozco-Martinez: Learn practical (and stylish) mending techniques to rescue and reimagine your clothes.
3. Storytelling session led by Liz Grunwald.
Parents/families this is an all-ages kinda day, so bring your littles, less littles, and your not-so-little littles.