Opening Reception of The Warp & Weft [Face to Face]
Rochester Contemporary Art Center
137 East Ave.
Apr 1, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

This First Friday, RoCo presents The Warp & Weft [Face to Face], the in-person experience of Mara Ahmed’s online archive, The Warp & Weft. The exhibition will feature over 40 stories in multiple languages, and combine visuals with the audio retellings of the stories. Visit RoCo to immerse yourself in these stories, and meet some of the participants. At 6:30pm, curator Mara Ahmed will share remarks about the project.

More about the archive: Originally released in collaboration with RoCo starting March 2021, The Warp & Weft is an online audio archive created and curated by interdisciplinary artist Mara Ahmed. It is a collection of stories from the first year of the pandemic that weaves together diverse voices, languages and geographies. The Warp & Weft hoped to go beyond politics and explore the human family’s preoccupations and imaginaries, at a time of isolation and upheaval. Now a year later, with the coronavirus still with us and the world knit together as tightly as ever, we revisit the archive as a multimedia exhibition.

Visit The Warp & Weft [Face to Face] at RoCo and immerse yourself in a colorful tapestry of stories. You can social distance, yet walk through the material expression of the archive and experience the beauty of human ideas and kinship. This exhibition continues through May 7. Read more here.