Closing Reception + Artist’s Talk: Jeannie Hua: Invisible Memories

Jeannie Hua: Invisible Memories
closing reception + artist’s talk: Friday, April 26, 6-8 pm
on view: April 17–April 26, 2024

Core Contemporary is excited to partner with Post-Invisibles, a Montreal, Canada-based biennial devoted to issues surrounding the place of women in the field of visual arts today. In this second biennial, more than fifteen exhibitions will be presented around the world exploring the theme of Territory/Boundaries, in the sense of the physical space we inhabit and share, regardless of the chosen or imposed borders, imaginary or geographical delimitations, that divide the planet and all too often lead us to isolate, distance and separate ourselves from one another.

The Las Vegas exhibition is co-curated by Mylène Lachance-Paquin and Nancy Good, and features Las Vegas fine artist, Jeannie Hua, whose dynamic, multi-layered paintings and collages fearlessly travel through concepts of cultural migration, historical and contemporary racism, fraught emotional territories, and confrontational change. Often raw, brutish, textured, and imperfect, Hua’s paintings usually challenge human and societal imperfections, in admonishment of our often very public failings. This biennial exhibition will debut a new series of works in Hua’s unique style. “While they’ve got an alluring ferocity to them,” gallery owner Nancy Good says of Hua’s pieces, “there is also found within the work an almost maternal invitation to risk pain for the reward of epiphany and personal growth.

Throughout the exibition, Invisible Memories, Hua’s practice sheds light on the invisibilization of the filial histories of immigrant communities in North America. Through her research, Hua addresses notions of memories, belonging to a territory, hospitality, treatment of immigrants, and their stories.