Imagining De-gentrified Futures
Curated by Betty Yu
Virtual Opening and Tour: Nov. 4, 2020 6pm EST RSVP Here
On view Thurs. - Sat. 1 pm - 6 pm
Nov. 5 - Dec. 19, 2020
3D Online and at 291 Church Street, NYC (reserve a timeslot to visit)
Featuring Work By:
Black Quantum Futurism
Imani Jacqueline Brown
Chinatown Art Brigade
Sandra de la Loza
Robin Holder
Betty Yu
Radical Housing Manifestos:
Thomas Angotti
Alicia Grullon
Hate Free Zone
Lynn Lewis, The Picture the Homeless Oral History Project
Antoinette Martinez, Protect Sunset Park
Robert Robinson
Pati Rodriguez, Mi Casa No Es Su Casa
Samuel Stein
Sunset Park Popular Assembly
Works featured in “Imagining De-gentrified Futures” at Apexart Gallery
See works HERE
Working class communities, immigrant communities, and communities of color across U.S. cities have been disproportionately impacted by hyper-gentrification and displacement over the last fifteen years.
Is it possible to disrupt dominant narratives that depict gentrification as “inevitable” and a “natural” part of urban evolution—monolithic assertions that often come from real estate speculators, developers, extractive industries and the 1%? Can we harness our collective resources and trace a new trajectory that allows communities to flourish without being priced out of our neighborhoods?
Imagining De-gentrified Futures is an interactive exhibition attempting to imagine socially-just futures for our cities and aiming to rethink the assumed trajectory of urban development. Drawing inspiration from anti-gentrification resistance across the U.S., decolonization movements, and Afrofuturism, this exhibition gives permission to imagine, to dream, to unleash and explore ways in which socially-just futures can exist for city communities.
Works on view take a variety of approaches to examine and suggest strategies for the challenges in cities like Hollywood, Philadelphia, New Orleans, New York City’s Chinatown and Brooklyn’s Sunset Park.
Imagining De-Gentrified Futures is an apexart Invited Curator Exhibition. For more information please visit apexart.org/yu.php or contact elizabeth.larison@apexart.org.