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VINAY HIRA BY MORTICIA ANTOINETTE GODIVA BY VINAY HIRA (NYC)
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“[in a] stylized fashion, [which] makes you laugh. [Vinay will] make you feel queasy or uncomfortable or angry. [He’ll] make you feel many of these things at once”
— Holly Warren, NewCity Art on ‘threnody to the victims of change’ (2020 New York quarantine film festival selection)
A performance in which Vinay Hira navigates his Manifest Destiny as The Other, but through the lens of The Other. Welcome to Vinayverse Delta - don’t worry though, Vinay has charged it to his Gold American Express.
Vinay has appropriated America and made many powerful enemies, but hidden within the context built from disdain, there is a layer of truth that is yet to be discovered. This show is Haruki Murakami, referencing Raymond Carver’s dirty realism through the lens of a minimalist. This is what Vinay thinks about when he thinks about Vinay (which is all he thinks about).
It is a moment of perfect Vintersectionality. What does that narrative say about Vinay? Was he successful, or was it a VinGuffin to send him spinning to the chaotic edges of the Vinayverse and into Vinsanity. This show is a celebration of Vinay's most valuable quality, hubris, and his inevitable demise. Here he provides an elegy from the most apt to provide it, humble Vinay (the enby, the dream, the god).
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THE ARTISTS
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Vinay Hira
ARTIST
Vinay Hira is a multidisciplinary artist based in Manhattan, New York. His self-referential aesthetic and varied self-taught technique produces work that distorts the image of a charming commonwealth brown boy - making audiences simultaneously experience his familiarity and his otherness.
Trained as a marine scientist and plant pathologist, he was flung into artistic notoriety whilst working in sterling bond investment in the bourgeois New Zealand suburbs.
Being a New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Fellow 2020, American Asian Artist Alliance 2021 Resident, and En Foco Photography 2021 Fellow has affirmed his place in the narrative of contemporary American art.
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Morticia Godiva
ARTIST
My name is Morticia Godiva. I am a Black woman of trans experience, writer and performer based in New York. I strive to create an authentic narrative through literature, dance, music and performance. I am interested in the space and distance between people, and how my innate ability to transform that into something of beauty for the viewer implicitly parting the gift of empathy to all those who devour my art . Thematically, the truth of self, and our right to determine our own existence is prevalent throughout my work.
IG: @morticiagodiva