‘Fishers of Males’ exhibit at Seashore Museum represents oppression confronted by refugees

The Marianna Kistler Seashore Museum of Artwork is host to many artworks. Its latest set up, “Fishers of Males,” acts as a visible salute to the anguished victims of the struggle between Russia and Ukraine.

Artist Fidencio Fifield-Perez’s work, “Fishers of Males,” is concocted of decommissioned nautical maps containing info from the U.S. authorities’s Geospatial-Intelligence Company. It’s spattered with acrylic paint and minimize up utilizing conventional paper-cutting strategies on what resembles a big fishing internet. It’s a fascinating expression that also applies to this lifetime’s terrifying and grim realities of grueling oppression.

Aileen Wang, curator on the museum, defined Fifield-Perez’s work extra in-depth.

“The result’s a sq. picture containing a blue globe with messy borders,” Wang stated. “In lots of components, the artist’s chopping follows grids on the maps and makes the entire thing appear like netting that may break simply. The cuttings and the blue, watery paint make me consider how fragile and synthetic man-made borders are, like a flimsy internet attempting to seize and include water and dwelling issues.”

Fifield-Perez created this piece in 2016, with most of his work encapsulating the sensation of oppression immigrants and refugees face. As an immigrant himself, Fifield-Perez was smuggled into the US from Mexico as a toddler and has since devoted his life to conveying the hardships of fellow immigrants in all places via his inventive endeavors.

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Kathrine Schlageck, affiliate curator of training, has gotten to know Fifield-Perez over the previous few years.

“His household got here to the US to make a greater life, and he grew up as a DACA youngster,” Schlageck stated. “His work addresses the necessity for all individuals who deserve a greater, safer life … ‘Fishers of Males’ displays the hope and unlucky actuality of [the] world.”

Upon its unique exhibition in 2017, Fifield-Perez referred to as for excerpts of British-Somali poet Warsan Shire’s poem “Dwelling” to be positioned alongside his personal works’ labels. The passage from “Dwelling” — which is learn on the labels of “Fishers of Males” — is as follows:

“nobody leaves house

until house is the mouth of a shark.

…

you need to perceive

nobody places their kids in a ship

until the water is safer than the land.”

Elizabeth Seaton, one other curator for the museum, spoke about her interpretation of the piece.

“Fishers of Males evokes fragility to me,” Seaton stated. “It makes me take into consideration the fragility of our world. Not solely the environment, however our humanity … what is going to occur if we don’t come collectively to assist those that are experiencing want, or loss, or tragedy.”

The Seashore Museum of Artwork is situated on the southeast nook of the Ok-State campus and is open from 10 a.m. to five p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to eight p.m. on Thursday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Extra details about the museum and its exhibitions is on the market via the Seashore Museum web site.