Join SoRA and artist/filmmaker Claudia Claremi in this celebration (you guessed it) of fruits: their beauty, their nourishment, and the deep webs of story, relation, and memory that they sustain. We'll have a banquet of the best fruits NYC's markets have to offer — you're invited to bring your own (and tell your story, too).
Bring a friend, make a friend, eat some fruit! Claremi will present a screening of her ongoing "Memoria de las Frutas" project, with a Q&A to follow.
We invite all attendees to make a $15 donation at the door (cash or PayPal). Thank you!
"La memoria de las frutas" (The Memory of Fruits) is a large-scale research-based project that explores the sensory and emotional bonds people have with fruits. "La memoria de las frutas" has been displayed in numerous media, combining film, video installations with overhead projectors, photographic installations, and publication formats. The project is a series in which each chapter addresses a specific context or community from the Caribbean and its diaspora. To date, it has been produced in Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and in Miami, NYC, and Madrid, archiving dozens of fruit varieties through people’s memories.
Claudia Claremi is an artist and filmmaker. Her work combines video, analogue film, photography, installation, sound, and text. She graduated from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) and the University of the Arts London (UK). Claremi is currently a CCI + WOPHA Fellow at PAMM (Miami) and has been an artist-in-residence at Beta Local (Puerto Rico), CRA Matadero (Madrid), VSW (Rochester, NY), and The Clemente (NY). Her films have screened at festivals like Ann Arbor, Rotterdam, Raindance, Oberhausen and Guadalajara, and her work has been shown in CVA Denver, BICA Buffalo, MAMM Medellín, HKW Berlin, La Casa Encendida, CA2M and Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid among others.