FLY | DROWN is a month long immersive exhibition that platforms the ways in which Black domestic spaces have provided sites for Black womxn to exercise acts of pleasure and self-sovereignty.

FLY | DROWN will simulate Jennifer Harge's grandparents home in Highland Park (Detroit), MI where they landed after traveling north during the Great Migration. The exhibition uses Black migration routes as a point of departure to invoke lineages belonging to Black domestic spaces in the Midwest and gestures toward practices that honor and queer ancestral legacies. The work suggests that the embodied memories and artifacts that belong to the architectural renderings of Black domestic spaces have enabled fellowship, grieving, archiving, and the development of queer genealogy.

The exhibition features photography and installation by
Bree Gant, sound design by Sterling Toles, costume design by Sabrina Nelson and Isabelle Molnar, and digital media design by Devin A. Drake. FLY | DROWN is curated by Taylor Renee Aldridge and managed by Nadia Tykulsker.

FLY | DROWN will be on view during Detroit Artists Market's regular gallery hours, and will include a a series of performances, workshops and salon talks conceptualized by dance artist Jennifer Harge and curator Taylor Renee Aldridge.

*All events are free with RSVP.* To find out more about the project, including performance, workshop and salon talk schedules please visit: detroitartistsmarket.org and hargedancestories.com

The project is generously funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Material Detroit, ARTXDetroit, Queer | Art, and Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists which is made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.