I SEE MY LIGHT SHINING - The Bishop Gallery

I SEE MY LIGHT SHINING

Group Exhibition

I SEE MY LIGHT SHINING

The Bishop Gallery, in collaboration with Incite Institute at Columbia University, is pleased to announce the opening of "I See My Light Shining," an evocative exhibition inspired by Jacqueline Woodson’s oral history initiative of the same name.

"I See My Light Shining" was originally developed as an oral history project aimed at capturing and preserving the stories of America’s elders, particularly those from Black and Brown communities. This initiative sought to address the broken historical traditions and untraceable beginnings that have shaped these lives, while also finding anchor points of communal tradition, history, and identity for the global majority.

 In this unique collaboration, artists were invited to engage with the oral history archive through an interdisciplinary lens, reshaping these stories using their own languages, logic, and expressions. The result is an exhibition that presents these elders’ life histories as fluid and dynamic sites of power, now preserved and reimagined through artistic expression.
The exhibit tethers oral transmissions and visual art, maintaining ancient practices of remembering and representation. It showcases the role of artists as historical interpreters, demonstrating that some memories cannot be merely read but require visual imagination for their full expression and sensemaking.

Like a swell of pride that fills, amplifies, and frees, the artists involved in "I See My Light Shining" have used various media to act as beacons to the project archive. Their works traverse the elders’ oral stories, addressing themes of movement, migration, lineage, and the creation and erasure of generational cultural knowledge. In doing so, the exhibition stretches time and place, connecting past and present experiences that have been interpolated into each other.

"I See My Light Shining" illustrates the power of engagement and the importance of preserving and reanimating the past to give it a new future. Visitors are invited to experience this profound interaction of history, memory, and artistic interpretation at The Bishop Gallery from August 24th to August 31st.

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August 24, 2024

UNTIL

August 31, 2024

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Group Exhibition

 In this unique collaboration, artists were invited to engage with the oral history archive through an interdisciplinary lens, reshaping these stories using their own languages, logic, and expressions. The result is an exhibition that presents these elders’ life histories as fluid and dynamic sites of power, now preserved and reimagined through artistic expression.
The exhibit tethers oral transmissions and visual art, maintaining ancient practices of remembering and representation. It showcases the role of artists as historical interpreters, demonstrating that some memories cannot be merely read but require visual imagination for their full expression and sensemaking.

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