"Slow Art Tour with huiyin zhou and Gail Belvett"

Join Gail Belvett and huiyin zhou in the Golden Belt Gallery for a slow art tour of huiyin's current exhibition “nostalgia is a ghost of care”

About Gail Belvett

"Gail M D Belvett, DDS (she/her) is an arts administrator and curator, independent board director and dental entrepreneur. Gail has served on the Nasher Museum of Art Friends Board, was named Chair of the Collections Committee for the Nasher Board of Advisors from 2016 – 2020 and is currently a Nasher Museum Gallery Guide.

https://theartchoseme.com/about"

EXHIBITION STATEMENT

Nostalgia often denotes a past tense: a sense of sentimental or wistful longing for things, memories, and objects that are already gone. But for huiyin, nostalgia rests in the future: they archive and rescue moments as they are happening, predicting the grief that will come after they disappear. Beyond an irrecoverable loss, how can nostalgia’s tender teachings enable us to recognize the uniqueness of each moment while it is still here? Weaving photo prints, polaroids, handwriting, and other ephemera, this body of work draws from the artist’s daily encounters in BIPOC/Queer communities. Rooted in queer and feminist sensibilities, nostalgia is the ghost of care explores photo archiving as an active form of grief and care work. It provides a memory sanctuary amidst the hauntings of loss, erasure, and structural violence. 

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Note: the title is inspired by Andy J. Pizza’s comic on nostalgia and gratitude in the Invisible Things project.