New City Arts presents Astronaut Mom_Landing, a solo exhibition by Alma Molina at Welcome Gallery featuring work she created during the New City Arts Fellowship.
Image courtesy of the artist
New City Arts' Welcome Gallery
114 3rd St. NE, Charlottesville, VA 22902
First Fridays
June 3, 5:00–7:30 PM
Free and open to the public. All ages welcome.
Gallery Hours
June 4, 10:00 AM–2:00 PM
Exhibition Events
Alma Molina hosted shared space for moms in the gallery every Tuesday and Friday
Covid-19 Visitor Policy
Masks are required at all times for all visitors, regardless of vaccination status. Please do not come to Welcome Gallery if you have been exposed to COVID-19, are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, or have been advised to isolate or quarantine.
Sponsors
This program is supported by an Enriching Communities grant from the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation and Maurice Wallace and Pam Sutton-Wallace.
Exhibition Statement (courtesy of the artist)
Astronaut Mom_Landing is a visual, collaborative investigation closing the "Astronaut Mom" series. With the arrival of the artist to the USA, she aims to connect her own personal experience of maternity with the subjective narratives of local moms. The result is a video and a performance that exposes the main conflicts of motherhood in a common patriarchal context.
Photo courtesy of the artist
About the Artist (courtesy of the artist)
Alma Rayén Molina Carvajal (she/her) is an art mediator and cultural manager and the mother of Nahuel and Freya. Alma arrived in Charlottesville from Chile in early September 2021. With formal studies in Art Theory, Art History and Education, and a self-taught person, Alma has studied and developed art mediation practices that link artist, artworks, and cultural institution with communities and people.
Over the last few years, Alma has started to work in visual art pieces, boosted by feminist artists and feminist spaces, developing a “right here, right now” aesthetic. Using a non-academic language, she documents the routines and daily everyday life using the tools that has in hand: cell phone pictures, videos and audio recordings, scribbles and quick notes over notebooks, improv dances, and small performances. In the end, mixed up in digital collages and videos, edited in the same non-expert way.
During her fellowship in May 2022, Alma has conducted research about maternity by opening the gallery space to local Charlottesville mothers to support their needs (taking a nap, having a meeting, etc.).
Photos by Jesús Pino.
