Artist Firelei Báez works on a 30-foot-long site-specific mosaic commissioned by Buffalo AKG and installed in the Knox Building. PHOTO COURTESY THE BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM.
After the museum reopens, its inaugural exhibitions will include “Dreamers’ Quay,'' an immersive multi-channel video installation by Lap-See Sam, a Swedish artist of the Chinese diaspora, in the Gundlach Building’s Ronnen Glass Box Theater. It will also debut a site-specific artwork commissioned from Dominican artist Firelei Báez: a 30-foot-long mosaic based on an Afrofuturist myth about women cast overboard in the Middle Passage thriving underwater, titled “Chorus of the Deep (something ephemeral and beautifully whole, when seen from the edge of one’s vision, too full when taken head on).”
