Installation view of Artifact #1: Tiger Balm.
Credit: Kearra Amaya Gopee/Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York
Kearra Amaya Gopee (BFA, 2017) is a participant in the current exhibition Block Party at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in Brooklyn.
Kearra's installation artwork, entitled Artifact #1: Tiger Balm, was exhbitied at NYU Tisch as part of her senior thesis in 2017. The piece addresses the multitude of challenges faced by the Carribean diaspora and recognizes the resilience of the community.
“What I found after producing ‘Tiger Balm’ was that it generates its own block in a sense. Many Caribbean people in the diaspora who have managed to see an iteration of the installation in full have responded in kind with their own experiences with immigration and restriction of movement by loved ones, either their own or that of several generations before them,” Gopee told the New York Times.
Block Party will remain on view through August 25 at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, 207 Ocean Avenue in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn.