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ASC Live Residency III: Geri MontanoPost an Event »
ASC Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Geri Montano, following a 2-week live residency in the project space where she created the majority of the works. For her residency and solo exhibition, Geri Montano continues her Traded Moons series—a community engagement project dealing with the topic of sex trafficking of Native American women and girls—creating three large-scale works on paper and an installation titled Traded Moons Dreaming. Rendered as silhouettes, referencing the graphic style of advertising, the female “commodities” hold strong postures that negate the idea that their body or nudity make them vulnerable or weak. Montano incorporates symbols such as floggers for prostitution and slavery, poppies for the female organ as well as the drug-induced dreamscape, and circles meant to allude to the moon, femininity, and dream catchers and medicine wheels; the incorporation of which furth ers the importance of Native women in the struggle to escape modern-day slave trades and the heritage and community of Native Americans as a whole.
The exhibition is supported in part by the San Francisco Arts Commission.