Michele Jaquis: We are Here, Together online at Proxy Gallery
Michele Jaquis MFA 00 SC solo exhibition, We are Here, Together is on view online June 1-30, 2021 at Proxy Gallery Los Angeles.
Michele Jaquis: We are Here, Together features a series of multi-lingual, text-based drawings and embroideries was made between 2018-2021. The embroideries were made with yarn unraveled from a sweater vest made by her Austrian-American Great-grandmother, Pauline Zuckerberg Kahn - a collaboration with one of her ancestors who left Eastern Europe before the Nazi's rose to power, allowing future generations of our family to flourish. She makes this work in solidarity with all who feel invisible and displaced.
The increased xenophobia since Trump's election; white supremacists marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina chanting "Jews will not replace us!"; the right wing conspiracy theory that George Soros, the progressive, Jewish philanthropist, was funding the Central American migrant caravan; the migrant interment camps put up along the US/Mexico border; the re-invigorated Black Lives Matter movement; the US government's response to the ongoing conflicts between Israel and Palestine - these are the social justice issues that have informed the work in her recent solo exhibition.
