05/28/2026
๐ฅ As part of our and series, we are pleased to present a screening of works by artists-in-residence Erika Choe () and Colby Lamson-Gordon (), organized by NARS Curatorial Fellow Vu Thien An (Thea) Nguyen ().
The screening will take place in parallel with the NARS Spring Open Studios, taking place on June 5 & 6.
Erika Choeโs ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฃ explores mothering, birth, rebirth, and loss through a video-based performance that examines permeability, vulnerability, and bodily transformation. Through the slathering of clay across the skin, Choe approaches material as both armor and cleansing, navigating the unstable boundary between protection and exposure. The work confronts viewers with questions of endurance and abjection, using mothering as a vessel through which soma, memory, and psycho trauma become entangled.
Colby Lamson-Gordonโs ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ, and ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ navigate adoption, emotional distance, and the search for familial connection through archival footage, digital mapping, and personal narration. Across both works, memory and geography become unstable terrains shaped by longing, displacement, and imagined reunion.
The screening will be followed by a conversation moderated by Hebin Rachel Shin (.hrs), Creative Manager at gmtc-golden monkey trading company.
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