Henry Art Gallery SOPHIA AL-MARIA: NOT MY BAG

WHEN:

July 22, 2023 - January 14, 2024

Sundays - 10am--5pm
Thursdays - 10am--7pm
Fridays -10am--5pm
Saturdays - 10am--5pm

WHERE:

Henry Art Gallery / Name of Place

15th Ave NE & NE 41st St
Seattle, WA 98195

ADMISSION

$0–20 suggested donation

For more information and tickets visit the Henry Art Gallery website.

A spokesperson describes the event as follows:

"...Not My Bag brings together Al-Maria’s recent trilogy of films and new collages that grapple with the violence of empire across individual and generational time scales, and animate the persistence of the rebellious, creative spirit amid the ruins of crisis. This will be Al-Maria’s first exhibition in the Pacific Northwest, a region central to shaping the artist’s youth and the trajectory of her art practice.

The title, Not My Bag, is a dynamic expression of Al-Maria’s approach to history, writing, and language, evoking a colloquial phrase of disavowal, and simultaneously alluding to Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” in which Le Guin advocates for writing narratives that hold the multiplicity of human experience. The metaphor of the bag recurs throughout Al-Maria’s work and points to her refusal of monolithic hero stories in favor of narratives that enfold the entangled relationship between pain and beauty and grapple with the complex, continual process of being and existing together on Earth..."

Images and Art courtesy of Henry Art Gallery and Sophia Al-Maria