</3 is a curation of individual and collaborative works that examine the unspoken process of heartaches in relationship to our lovers, families, work, home, neighborhoods and ancestral stories of colonial trauma. This exhibition explores the intersections of a </3: how the text emoticon is part of an alternative language production that transcends geographical and cultural boundaries, how it builds space via visual technology to assuage the heartbreak of transnational existence, and how its inarticulable affective connotations relate to resistance, healing and regenerative practices.

Participating Artists:

Erina C. Alejo; Karen Chin; Marlene Iyemura; Shelley Kuang; Vida Kuang; Diana Li; Mariela Montero; Lisa Pradhan; Mallika Roy; Celi Tamayo-Lee; Sasha Vu

Artist Bio:

Appendix is a growing collective of multi-ethnic Asian American womxn, queer and allied artists whose art and community practices in the Bay Area work to reclaim personal, intimate and diasporic narratives of intergenerational memory, healing and trauma.

Exhibition Dates:

Exhibition: May 1-29

Opening: May 10 @ 6:30-8:30pm

More Info: cargocollective.com/appendix

*Artwork: Iyemura, Marlene. "I am (not)" 2015. Three wearable buttons, 6" diameter each