DEATH RIGHTS

February 24 - March 23, 2024, Communion, San Antonio, Texas
Presented by Apexart; International Open Call First Place Winner

Gabriel Chalfin-Piney - Adriana Corral - Evan Paul English - Angela Guerra Walley - Joe Harjo - Angel Lartigue - Iliria Osum - Kameron Neal and Shayok Misha Chowdhury - Heather Renée Russ - Andy Sahlstrom - Ingrid Tremblay

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Death Rights presents creators engaging with death, loss, remembrance, and the afterlife, from political, spiritual, and radical perspectives. Death Rights brings together a breadth of artists to radically reshape and reclaim our relationship to death.

Exhibiting artists explore end of life rituals, alternatives, and communal processes of grieving and laying to rest; our relationship to the past and buried histories and ancestors; and the politics of who is allowed to be remembered. They demand new ways of grieving and celebrating those lost, and create ways of relating to death when danger looms close to their communities. They explore archival work and death research as a radical creative and political act; they imagine future legacies and use past generations and current grief to uncover identities in the present. They reorient and queer our relationships to spirituality and its role in our understandings of grief, death and the past/future, and they unravel heteronormative life and death versus queer time, place, and community.

Together, these artists present a thoughtful and multi-faceted exploration of our rights, as humans, to interact with death in an abundant, creative, and healing way - rights that too often are taken from us (by capitalist forces, governments, and other systems of power), or that we forget to remember to use.

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Read the full exhibition text here. Tour a 3D scan of the exhibition online at Apexart.org.