Finding Necessities navigates the viewer through works of curiosity, resistance, healing, and imagination. Without curiosity we remain stagnant, without resistance we don’t evolve, without healing we lack tenderness, and without imagination we cannot escape. These grounding gestures ebb and flow throughout one’s existence, playing a role in the evolution of self. The eight selected artists: Alejandro T. Acierto, Yunkyoung Cho, B. Chehayed, LJANELLE, Kirsten Lofgren, La Rissa Rogers, Luis Vasquez, and Rodell Warner create works that speak to various pivotal moments of movement and restoration.

About the Curator

Sidney Mori is a curator, arts organizer, and artist based in Houston, Texas and graduated from University of Houston in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography/Digital Media. For three years she created work that was exhibited locally and internationally, including Alabama Song Art Space, Blaffer Art Museum, Art Licks Weekend and Wedge Gallery among others. It was from her experience of interacting with the arts as the artist and administrator that she then pursued the path that was true to her intentions, working with artists: creating, organizing, and providing platforms for artist’s voices. Her curatorial practice acts through inclusivity, sustainability, mindfulness, and challenging the traditional, hetero-normative, white-centered art space. She is now Curatorial Assistant and Art Coordinator at Project Row Houses and curated Re.Migrant Parts 1 & 2 and Cause Number: 02-F-00151 for Project Row Houses Community Gallery space.