He is serious and robust, he narrated me about his life, that is shared between N. York (he was
born in America in 1938) and Chania, that loves, where he works incessantly, creating a world
of black and white, balancing between cartooning and drawing, innocence and gravity, hard reality and fairy
tale, with a caustic humor, protagonist is the fantasy, the evident or covered sexuality, with the particular sensitivity that grips him as a person and artist.
Featuring: Amna Asghar, Dana Davenport, Umber Majeed, Tammy Nguyen, Ke Peng, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Sheida Soleimani Amna Asghar speaks on the construction and translation
of disparate references, cultures, geographies, and generations from Pakistan and America; Dana Davenport addresses the complexity
of interminority racism within her own community and institutions from her experiences as a
Black Korean American; Umber Majeed's practice attempts to unpack the temporalities within South Asia as site, familial archival material, popular culture, and modern national state narratives; Tammy Nguyen interrogates natural sciences and non-human forms to explore racial intimacies and US military involvement in the Pacific Rim; Ke Peng documents the feeling
of alienation and disorientation from urbanization and immigration by taking a journey into an imagined childhood in China, Hunan, where she was
born and Shenzhen, a modern city where her family relocates to; Sahana Ramakrishan explores myths and religion from Buddhist and Hindu
tales to speak upon the magic
of childhood and the power dynamics
of sexuality, race, and violence; Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian - American artist and a daughter
of political refugees, making work to highlight her critical perspective on the historical and contemporary socio - political occurrences in Iran.