Tender Monuments: A Conversation with Hedwig Brouckaert, Jordan Cruz, Juyon Lee, and Motohiro Takeda
April 18, 2026 | 3:30 - 5:00 PM
The Bronx Museum
1040 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, NY 10456
The artists describe this program as follows: “This is a conversation with four AIM artists whose practices converge around personal, communal, and environmental grief, moderated by curator Nell Klugman.”
“Working across glass, wax, organic matter, ceramics, and mass consumer debris, the four artists transform materials to embody memory while acknowledging its fragility. Objects associated with permanence become vulnerable through the process of melting, burning, and breaking, while fleeting experiences such as conversation, digital interaction, seasonal change, and everyday ritual are given physical form.”
“The discussion centers on material transformation and commemoration: How do artists decide what to preserve, archive, or surrender? What does it mean to make intimate histories public? How does material act as a reliquary or a space of transformation?”
“By collapsing boundaries between private mourning and collective experience, Brouckaert, Cruz, Lee, and Takeda consider how impermanent materials can bear enduring meaning, and how seemingly stable materials reveal their own instability. Together, they ask how art can memorialize loss without fixing it in place, and how care lies not only in preservation, but in allowing change.”
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