Liv Furman: (Re)VISIONING
Hatch Admin
(Re)VISIONING: Liberated Queer Black Futures
A 4-part curated collection of the media and methodologies Liv Furman utilizes within their identity-informed rituals of self-reflection, self-expression, and healing.
May 6th - 28th, 2023
Artist Talk May 13th, 2 - 3pm
Hatch Art Gallery , 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck, MI
Gallery Hours:
Thursdays & Fridays, 6pm - 9pm | Sundays & Saturdays, noon - 5pm
Olivia "Liv" Furman, Ph. D. (they/them) is a Black non-binary womanist artist//educator//researcher currently working on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples at Michigan State University (MSU). Their primary mediums include multimedia and digital collage, ceramics, quilting, and the written and spoken word. Within their interdisciplinary integration of self-portraiture and experimental methods in ceramics, Liv imagines and materializes afrofuturist worlds for themselves using altar-like installations, slip cast clay bodies, and multimedia materials. Within their artful experiments with memory and time, Liv creates slip cast tiles created from 3D printed lithophane replicas of photographs. Each piece they create artfully stories the fluidity and intimate complexities of their identities, family and ancestors, difficult emotions, desires, memories, and interactions with other people and/or artifacts. In this process of piecing together they utilize digital and textile materials, including collected/recycled paper, personal photos, ceramics, textiles, poetry, symbols, quotes, and other materials to make meaning, to share stories, and to heal.