The Body a Vessel for the Worlds We Bring: Studio Visit

Sculpture has an intuitive nature of channeling ideas to life, bringing primordial material into recognizable form, the body a vessel for the worlds we bring with us. Priscilla Aleman is inspired by the ocean and sports fields—a portal of thresholds—as poetic analogies to the exchanges we create. Using plaster, rainwater, clays, shells, banana leaves, and sports relics, she creates figures in accessible materials to understand the body’s presence and evolution, elevating it as an artifact to study various social, agricultural, and cosmic fields. Body casting—an intimate experience between herself, friends, and family members—becomes a central component to many of her works. Citing the ocean as a connective tissue, she forges materials collected from related regions throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. She incorporates a multitude of deep field research and work to push the process of recontextualizing old and new worlds.

RSVP to Studio Visit

Join Priscilla the day after her Mertz Library presentation, along with Humanities Institute staff, for a visit to her artist studio here in the Bronx. Capacity is limited.

728 E 136th St
Bronx, NY 10454