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Walk with Me / Exhibition / Nuttaphol Ma

Please join us for the closing reception for Walk with Me on Friday, September 14, 5-8pm at SFAI.

SFAI Alumni Fellow Nuttaphol Ma presents Walk With Me, a contemplative installation about a migrant’s tale, a journey into the heart of Ma’s durational work of rebuilding his ancestral house.  “I do not have much but what I do have are my body, my words and my actions.  When woven together, humble acts and gestures placed onto contested sites become powerful voices of poetic resistance over the course of time.”  Since 2011, Ma has taken on a lifelong project entitled “The China Outpost” which he defines as his nomadic sweatshop of one.  The outpost operates within a migratory framework where Ma labors on transforming discarded plastic bags into threads – a material he will use as one of the core building materials for the eventual reconstruction of his great-grandfather’s home.

Walk With Me invites participants to wander within the lobby and gallery space at SFAI.  Relics, artifacts and photo documentation of activities within The China Outpost fill the lobby space.  A model of Ma’s ancestral house anchors the main gallery.  The south wall is activated by a map of the outpost’s forthcoming transcontinental journey suggesting Ma’s radical cartographic approach in remapping “The Grand Army of the Republic Highway” with his body, actions and words.  The north wall is blocked off by a handcrafted fabric wall that becomes the surface for Ma’s video projection of his durational walk along Highway 190 from the Badwater Basin to Whitney Portal.

Public programs to accompany the exhibition include the following:

Brown Bag Lunch with Nuttaphol Ma

Brown Bag Lunch with Nuttaphol Ma

Walk with Me / Film Screening / Nuttaphol Ma