a nomadic garden - we are nomads, we are dreamers
May 11 - August 25, 2024
with Suchitra Mattai
Socrates Sculpture Park
Astoria, Queens
A site-specific garden designed in partnership with Suchitra Mattai for the exhibition; we are nomads, we are dreamers. The monumental solo exhibition curated by Kaitlin Garcia Maestas at Socrates Sculpture Park celebrates the migratory oceanic journeys of past, present, and future diasporic communities. The garden blends plants from Mattai’s ancestral homelands of Guiana and India with native perennial herbal plants form the Northeast of Turtle Island, asking: “instead of celebrating those in power, why can’t we celebrate the process of transformation and adaptation inherent in the migrations of individuals, plants and communities?”
Press & Links
Suchitra Mattai plants the monuments we need, Hyperallergic, November 2024
we are nomads, we are dreamers, Socrates Sculpture Park, 2024
Photo by Scott Lynch