About this Event
"Safe Passage" a Short Film by Visual Artist Heather Williams
Date: Saturday, July 31, 2021
Times: 12:00 Noon & 2:00 pm
Location: ArtCrawl Harlem Artists Residency, 4B Nolan Park, Governors Island, NYC
"Safe Passage is a meditation on the journey of searching for a way forward toward safety, freedom, and humanity. Paths are obscured. Ancestors cast in clay guide, bear witness, and watch over. The past haunts the present. The future remains wavering and uncertain. Artist Heather Williams asks is there a safe passage for the black body?
SAFE PASSAGE, the 2020 video by multi-platform artist Heather Williams expands 6 minutes and 36 seconds into a deeply felt mediation on a five hundred year old question. “Is there a safe passage for the black body?” While the question remains poignantly unanswered,
Williams cracks spacetime into a path both real and metaphoric. We travel through the tall grasses of New Jersey wetlands without the benefit of the long view. We enter that tiny space where fenced space meets cool breezes, as we enter the cool south source – the protective forces of ancestral vigilance. Slow, elegant and deliberate this work employs a visual clarity that joins conditions both abstract and represented. We see as the artist sees: from the life-giving green of macro vision, to the searing white light burning through tiny holes at the fabric’s selvage edge. This is the mother’s edge: the one that keeps all from unraveling – and when you look through – a promising porthole to a revolutionary new space."
– Sheila Pepe, 2021
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Governors Island, Nolan Park, 4B, New York, United States
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