December at Blue Sky
December Exhibitions and Programs at Blue Sky
Blue Sky is pleased to announce December Exhibitions and Programs. Please join us on Dec 7 from 5 - 8 PM for First Thursday Opening!
Ada Trillo
La Caravana Del Diablo
Image © Ada Trillo
Dec 7 - 30, 2023
First Thursday Opening: Dec 7, 5 - 8 PM
Artist Talk: Thu, Dec 7, 6 PM
Ada Trillo is an award-winning documentary photographer from the U.S.-Mexico border shedding light on xenophobic foreign policies barring migrants from opportunities to seek asylum. Trillo’s series La Caravana Del Diablo focuses on the massive Honduran migrant caravan of January 2020, that traveled through Guatemala into Mexico, fleeing violence and poor economic conditions. Trillo uses their art to create awareness, fight injustice, and capture the human element of migrant narratives.
Zaharia Cușnir
The Joy of Living
Image © Zaharia Cușnir
Dec 7 - 30, 2023
First Thursday Opening: Dec 7, 5 - 8 PM
Zoom Presentation: Wed, Dec 13, 12 PM (PT)
The Joy of Living is an exhibition dedicated to the found works in the archive of Moldovan artist Zaharia Cușnir. On a lukewarm morning of spring 2016, a film student at University of Chisinau discovered almost 4,000 negatives in the attic of an abandoned house in the village of Roșietici, in northern Moldavia, where only a handful of elderly inhabitants have remained. These black-and-white images show Moldavian peasants between the 1950s and 1970s and set the scene for a world that has never been substantially documented, as the totalitarian Soviet regime exercised a cultural monopoly through its photographic and cinematographic propaganda tools.