EXHIBITION, INSTALLATION
ray ferreira’s An echo wails, whispers an undulating pattern
Nov 15 — Nov 17, 2024
Location: Schlosser Media Wall
Exploring the connections between queerness, embodiment, and speculative fiction, this video installation looks at bodies as sources of labor power, their ideological construction, and the possibilities granted by history and indeterminate futures. Remixing time and space, artist ray ferreira uses poetic statements and blunt ramblings as she ponders how her body is situated in the world. The ocean, both metaphorically and historically, becomes a space in which she floats, sinks, and dances. With a dark blue, wavy ocean animated like a gif and an electronic dance beat in the background, ray vocalizes her thoughts through a non-human, alien/cyborg voice further delving into the land of an other. The words spoken are influenced by a mixture of cultures—like ray herself, who is a queer, Black Latina.