Join SoLA Contemporary this month, as we usher in the new season with our Creative Exchange program’s inaugural exhibition, Remembering Together. This multidisciplinary show features the work of six emerging artists who, for the past eight months, have engaged in a collaborative creative practice.

Under the guidance of photographer and educator Adrian White, these artists honed their craft by articulating their artistic ethos and offering critique of one other’s work. The result is a show that is grounded in integrity, yet replete with intrigue. The various artworks, which include paintings, photographs, videos, and mixed-media, engage in a dialogue of their own. Remembering Together reads like a conversation between individual artists and their unique mediums, inspirations, and aesthetics. It addresses themes of spirituality, sexuality, ancestry, motherhood, beauty, and empowerment in ways that feel intimate and meditative. The deeply personal quality to the artists’ work emerges from the period of workshopping with curator Adrian White, who said the following about Remembering Together:

“Art allows us to write our own stories. It always starts with a journey, an experience or a memory. It is a piece of us - a response to who we are or what we’ve gone through... I believe nostalgia places an emphasis on both time and place. The art always points back to the artist’s experience, their own lives, and that is where I find the most beauty.”

Designed to foster community and reciprocal dialogue, Creative Exchange cultivates a safe space for and among artists. “Creative Exchange gave me an opportunity to work with a group of artists in an intimate and vulnerable way I never had before. It gave me confidence to show my work with honesty... Collaborating with this group I know now there are no barriers for me because I make work that's genuine to me,” said Samuel Mokelu, painter, videographer, and current member of the Creative Exchange cohort.