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Various artists from the Netherlands participate in Prospect.6 Biennial in New Orleans

Deborah Jack. Photo courtesy of Prospect.6 and the artist

Deborah Jack, Untitled I from Intertidal Imaginaries: The Resistant Geographies of the Shore(coast) in the Aftermath of Saltwater(storm surges), 2021. Courtesy of the artist.

Arturo Kameya. Photo courtesy of Prospect.6 and the artist

Arturo Kameya, Pido la palabra / I request the floor (series), 2021. Ceramics, zinc buckets, steel,pumps, metal containers,sand, two glass figures, bird made of artificial feathers and foam; 260 x 280 x 160 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

Ada M. Patterson. Photo courtesy of Prospect.6 and the artist

Ada M. Patterson, A Ship of Fools, 2020. 3-channel digital video. Image courtesy of the artist and Copperfield, London.

Venuri Perera. Photo courtesy of Prospect.6 and the artist

Venuri Perera, Passport Blessing Ceremony, Performance at SIFA Singapore. Image courtesy of the artist.

Sat, Nov 2 - Sun, Feb 2  2025

Various locations in New Orleans

For Prospect.6, Co-Artistic Directors Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson will posit New Orleans as a globally relevant point of departure for examining our collective future as it relates to climate change, legacies of colonialism, and definitions of belonging and home.

From November 2, 2024 until February 2, 2025, four Dutch and Netherlands-based artist will participate in Prospect.6 The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home, a New Orleans citywide triennial exhibition of contemporary art featuring artists from Louisiana and around the globe. Including: Deborah Jack, Arturo Kameya, Ada M. Patterson, and Venuri Perera.

Curatorial statement

What if New Orleans, a predominantly BIPOC city deeply impacted by hurricanes, receding coastlines, histories of violence, and a cyclical commitment to celebration, was considered a harbinger for the world that is to come? This framework postulates New Orleans, along with other more climate-vulnerable regions in the world, as already living in the “future” that other places will experience. With alarming speed, more regions of the world are experiencing the immediate effects of climate change and dramatic shifts in economic and government function. New Orleans is thereby approached as a gift to the rest of the world in its ability to offer lessons and examples for how to live in constant negotiation with the weather, grounded within a community that reflects the global majority, and in direct proximity to the effects and aftereffects of colonial and exploitative economies.

We regard New Orleanians as Prospect’s first audience. In our collaborations within the city and other regions often framed by tourism, stereotypes, and service economies, we strive to honor the people who manifest the vibrance of these creative communities. We are asking: what does it mean to speak “from” a place, rather than “at” it? If a biennial or triennial is traditionally considered in relation to its “host” city (a term with parasitic implications), what does it mean to “hold” a city, a gesture that suggests care and reverence?

Deborah Jack

B. 1970, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Lives in Cole Bay, St. Maarten and Jersey City, NJ. More info on the Prospect.6 website here.

Venue:
UNO St. Claude Gallery
2429 St Claude Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117
Monday–Tuesday, Closed
Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

About Deborah Jack

Deborah Jack is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes video installation, photography, and text. Her practice engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology, and climate change.

Jack received an MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2002. Her work has been featured in significant exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA; the Houston Center of Photography, TX; and other renowned institutions. In 2021, a retrospective, Deborah Jack: 20 Years, was presented at Pen + Brush in New York, NY. Her work is in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Des Moines Art Center, IA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. Jack was a 2023 Changing Climate Resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute and a Surf Point Foundation artist-in-residence. She is a recipient of a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (2024), a Soros Arts Fellowship (2023), a Jersey City Artist Grant (2022), and a Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2021). Jack is currently a Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.

On Friday, January 31, 2025, 6:00-8:00 PM. Deborah Jack, in partnership with UNO St, Claude Gallery and the Diaphanous Ensemble, invites audiences to contemplate how sound and poetry meld to create our collective memories of home. Jack will lead visitors through an immersive, aural experience of her six-channel video installation accompanied by the experimental, string-forward collective, Diaphanous Ensemble. RSVP here.

Arturo Kameya

B. 1984, Lima, Peru. Lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Lima, Peru. More info on the Prospect.6 website here.

Venue:
Alone Time Gallery
2338 Barracks St
New Orleans, LA 70119
Monday–Tuesday, Closed
Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

About Arturo Kameya

Arturo Kameya’s artwork examines the narratives and myths that comprise different versions of history. Kameya works with various mediums, including acrylic, plaster, film, and printmaking. His multimedia artworks are often arranged together to create large-scale installations that delineate connections between disparate historical events, linking together a range of visual cultural languages which have been formed over time. Recent works examine the possibility of constructing a transversal narrative from disparate layers of recent history within the Peruvian urban context.

Kameya received a BFA from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in 2008 and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam in 2021. His work was presented at the 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil in São Paulo, Brazil; Busan Biennale, South Korea in 2022; and the fifth New Museum Triennial, New York, NY. He has had solo exhibitions at Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands; GRIMM, New York, NY; Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Netherlands; and GRIMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Kameya’s work is part of numerous collections including Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru, among others.

Ada M. Patterson

B. 1994, Bridgetown, Barbados. Lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  More info on the Prospect.6 website here.

Venue:
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
925 Camp St
New Orleans, LA 70130
Monday–Sunday, 10am–5pm

About Ada M. Patterson

Ada M. Patterson is an artist, writer and educator based between Barbados, London, and Amsterdam. She works with drawing, masquerade, music, performance, poetry, textiles and video, considering the connections between storytelling, transformation, crisis, grief, rage, disappearance, discretion, self-defense, and survival.

Patterson received a BFA from Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London in 2017 and an MA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2020. Her work has been included in various exhibitions internationally; recent exhibitions include Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now at Tate Britain, London, UK; and The Whole World is Turning at TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Patterson was the 2020 NLS Kingston Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow, and an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam in 2024.

Venuri Perera

B. 1981, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Works internationally. More info on the Prospect.6 website here.

Venue:
Ford Motor Plant
7200 N Peters St
Arabi, LA 70032
Monday–Tuesday, Closed
Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

About Venuri Perera

Venuri Perera is a choreographer, performance artist, curator, and educator. Exploring the power dynamics of visibility and opacity, she attempts to disorient how we perceive the “other.” She subverts frameworks of existing rituals to create alternate dramaturgies. She works with found objects and is curious about space and place. Perera’s solo and collaborative works deal with violent nationalism, patriarchy, border rituals, colonial heritage, and class. They have been in festivals and biennales across Europe, South and East Asia, the Middle East, and Africa since 2010.

Perera is a graduate of DAS (Arts) Theatre and has an MA in Clinical Psychology from Pune University, India. She has collaborated in multi-disciplinary performance projects locally and internationally since 2004. Perera was a member of the Chitrasena Dance Company and a founding member of The Packet Collective. She conceived and curated the programs of the Colombo Dance Platform at the Goethe-Institut (2016-20), and is committed to creating support networks for the independent dance scene in Sri Lanka.

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