“I CAME HERE TO WEEP”
YANIRA CASTRO
Art Exhibition + REsidency
Autumn 2024
OPEning Date
October 5th, 2024
EXHIBIT RUN: Oct 5- Nov 17
The Honeycomb Network presents, I came here to weep, an interactive exhibit featuring sound, text, papel-maché masks, and photographs from Castro’s body of work on grief, ritual, climate disaster, and the Caribbean diaspora.
about the exhibition:
The Honeycomb Network is proud to be a part of a hub site for Yanira Castro’s Coordinated Public Art Project titled “Exorcism = Liberation” which investigates our relationship to land, self-determination, migration, and climate disaster.
Through the project, Castro and a multitude of artists invite the American public to imagine alternative futures through the lens of Puerto Rican culture and the U.S.' ongoing colonial history.
The Honeycomb Network is one of a multitude of participating community and arts organizations in a multi-city wide experience with presence in New York City, Chicago, and the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts.
In addition, to having us be an activation site for this public project with a sound experience art piece titled “I came here to weep,” beginning October 5th, Yanira will also use this piece to expand on in an interactive “I came here to Weep” Exhibition that will run from October 5th - November 17th as our Autumn 2024 artist in residence.
See Schedule for the opening + experience of “I Came Here to Weep” below:
Join us for this unique interactive art opening experience where we will host a listening party and short discussion with Yanira, before moving into a collective writing session utilizing prompts from the piece.
Afterwards, we will co-create a creative healing practice by designing + constructing “Grief Wreaths” facilitated by Denise, (mixed media artist and founder of the Honeycomb Network). We will utilize various medicinal plants, flowers and other natural elements to create a beautiful homage for someone or something that has transitioned or that we are grieving.
We will close the event with a healing mini sound bath meditation lead by our Chrysalis Collective Member Jasmin, founder of “Of The Mother,LLC”
*light refreshments will be served for free and ticketed event
Meet the artist in residence:
