“In my Home Clothes” marks Renluka Maharaj’s first exhibition with Welancora Gallery. The artist, born in Trinidad and Tobago, utilizes sourced photographs, textiles, sculpture, research, and travel to create mixed media compositions that investigate how history, migration, memory, religion, and gender inform identity in general and that of her family in particular. The artist’s family lineage can be traced back to India during the 19th century when forced indentured servitude replaced African slave labor on sugarcane plantations in the Caribbean.

The title of the show is inspired by works of fiction from Caribbean authors; It signals a sense of comfort within one’s own culture juxtaposed with the survival tactic of code-switching. Home becomes much more than a location, but what you eat, how you speak, and what you wear.

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm EDT

Free!

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