The Urban Video Project from Light Work terminates the exhibition 'Lines of the Flying' to – Syracuse University News

The Urban Video Project from Light Work will present the exhibition “Lines of Flight” with short films by the Multimedia artist Joiri Minaya and the filmmaker Miryam Charles. The exhibition examines the confused trajectories of shift, immigration, invasion, research and flight.

The exhibition will last from February 27 to May 24, 2025 as an architecture projection site at the Everson Museum facade.

Further works by Joiri Minaya will be shown at the Syracuse University Museum on the show “Joiri Minaya: The Tropics in the Museum” until May 10, 2025.

In cooperation with the exhibition, Minaya and Charles will be present on Thursday, March 20, at 6:30 p.m. in the Watson Theater towards the galleries of Light Work on a demonstration and questions and answers.

“Labade”
Joiri Minaya

“Labadee” is a short video that parts of a cruise trip in the Royal Caribbean in Labade, Haiti, and the dynamics that are developed in this privately managed room and is fenced onto the Royal Caribbean Cruises until 2050.

It meditates about the exploitation, self -exploration, performance and access control, which were generated by the system of tourism in the Caribbean, and in the link to Columbus' invasion by the first sentences in the subtitles, to attribute the descent of these contemporary rooms to colonization.

“Fly, fly sadness”
Miryam Charles

In this film, a nuclear explosion changes mysteriously the voices of all residents of an island. A journalist travels to the island to learn more and finds changed.

About the artists

Joiri Minaya is a multidisciplinary artist of the Dominican, whose recent works focus on destabilizing historical and contemporary representations of an imaginary tropical identity. Minaya visited the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuals in Santo Domingo (2009), the Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011) and Parsons The New School for Design (2013). She took part in esteemed Residency programs such as Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Smack Mellon, Nyfa Mentoring program for artists Migrantin, Vermont Studio Center and Fountainhead. She received numerous awards, scholarships and grants, including Nysca/Nyfa, Jerome Hill, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

Miryam Charles is a Haitian-Canadian director, producer and cameraman who lives in Montreal. She has produced several short and feature films. Her films were presented internationally in various festivals. Her first feature film, “Cette Maison” (this house), was presented in the Berlinale, the AFI Film Festival, and recorded in the top 10 of the year. Some of your short films and your features are available to stream on the criteria channel. Your work examines topics in connection with exile and the legacy of colonization.