Sept 27 - 29 | Flight: A 72-Hour Durational Performance
Sunday to Tuesday, September 26 to 29
Free | Registration not required
About the Program
Over approximately 72 hours, Anique Jordan inhabits the gallery, moving through unscripted periods of rest, sleep, and travel. Informed by the Shouter Baptist spiritual practice of “moaning,” which involves extended fasting, Flight similarly turns to dreams and bodily experience as sources of knowledge. Jordan asks the gallery to bend to these ways of knowing, allowing her experience to shape the institution’s rhythms and its use of space and time. For 72 hours, visitors are welcome to enter the gallery at any time, including overnight.
About “I Think This Means I Can Fly”
In I Think This Means I Can Fly, Anique Jordan considers how truth is made, inherited, and given form. The exhibition grows from Jordan’s research into the Flying Africans—stories of enslaved people who escaped bondage by taking flight—and connections between the Gullah Geechee communities of the Carolinas and her family history in Trinidad. Jordan asks what becomes possible when ancestral narratives, dreams, and spiritual knowledge are approached as truth-telling systems.
Through photography, performance, and installation, Jordan develops a visual language of glitches, shadows, blurs, portals, and disjointed bodies. Monumental photographs, rearrangeable light boxes, and images printed on glass blur the boundaries between reality and the seemingly impossible. Here, flight is at once movement, refusal, and a way of knowing. Jordan invites us into a world governed by other rules, where history may be dreamed and remembered, belief becomes material, and the marvelous offers its own account of what happened.
Curated by Essence Harden.
