On View: August 17 – November 3, 2024
Location: MoCADA Abolition House, House 7a Nolan Park, Governors Island
SUMMARY
Divine Intervention: Stories of Love and Solidarity by Lehna Huie is a storytelling installation that uplifts the work of cultural workers, organizers and artists – drawing together varying stories of devotion to their communities during the COVID years (2020-present). This installation translates several interview processes into applied textile, collage, photographic and video-based interpretations of daily rituals of care, commitment, and recovery that are rooted in anti-imperialism and decolonization.
This installation was born from Lehna Huie’s solidarity project as a Bandung Residency Cohort 2 artist in 2023. Entitled, Divine Intervention: Healing Modalities: Stories of Love and Solidarity, Lehna developed a collection of portrait-based interviews of incredible Black and Asian artists, cultural workers, and activists who uplift our communities through their relationships, solidarity, and liberation work. Each with roots extending from New York City and beyond, their reflections emphasized daily rituals of care, commitment, healing, and recovery.
Divine Intervention works to uplift representations of diverse spiritual and healing paths utilizing textile, collage, and video-based offerings. All of the interviews and portraits created as part of this project are included in this final installation as part of a living altar at MOCADA’s Abolition House. An interactive, collaborative ritual performance and offering by dear friends Lehna Huie and YaliniDream is also featured.
MoCADA Abolition House is open Friday – Sunday 12-6 PM through November 3, 2024. Admission is free for all ages.
Visit us at House 7A Nolan Park on Governors Island.
ARTISTS
Lehna Huie [IG: @LehnaHuie] is an alum of Mount Royal’s Interdisciplinary Arts program at the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Class of 2021, where she also studied at the Hoffberger School of Painting. In 2022, Lehna was awarded an Artist Changemaker Award with Global Fund for Women and was an Inaugural Resident of Stoneleaf Retreat Art Mamas Residency. That same year, she represented the USA in The Hague Contemporary Art Fair at Quartair Gallery in the Netherlands, and in 2023, was a participant of Elsewhere Studio Residency. Lehna has received multiple awards including the Space for Creative Black Imagination Makers & Research Fellowship and Artist Changemaker Award with Global Fund for Women. Trained through the Joan Mitchell Foundation, her practice includes work as a Legacy Specialist, preserving intergenerational artists archives and oral histories. She was also a Bandung Residency Cohort 2 artist.
Learn more about the Bandung Residency program HERE.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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Made possible thanks to generous gifts from:
The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs on behalf of NYC City Council, New York State Council on the Arts and Governor Kathy Hochul, and The Ford Foundation
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