""I was thinking a lot about community and agency and our ability to create change and build culture together. I think that there's so much that we do with our hands on a day-to-day basis; there can be like love or violence or impassiveness that is reproduced through daily movements ... the day-to-day things that we do and what we build, and there is this question around responsibility and the relationality.""
""As metaphors for action, personhood, community and the inheritance we come from and share forward, the exhibit invites us to belong in a place and in process together.""
Naomi Halpern's installation 'Whose Hands' features illuminated paper sculptures at the Salem Art Association, emphasizing themes of community, agency, and cultural change. Halpern reflects on the significance of hands as symbols of daily actions that can embody love, violence, or indifference. Their work is rooted in immigration justice and explores identity and belonging. The exhibit invites viewers to engage in a shared process of belonging, while also addressing environmental themes that connect to the spiritual aspects of their artistic practice.
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