October 22 – 25, 2024

Video works by Amber Imrie and Shey Rí Acu Rivera Ríos will play throughout this week at IM Studio in Coram Library. Mano de Obra, Rivera’s piece, is an immersive expanded version of their gold annotated photograph of their family home in Puerto Rico, bringing viewers into the image. Amber Imrie’s Queering Redneck series are video performances of the artist using their body and queer identity to challenge the myths and stereotypes attributed to the ‘Redneck’ persona. Guests are welcome to drop in at any time while these videos are playing. 

Tuesday, October 22:

• 9-12, Mano de Obra
• 1-4, Queering Redneck

Wednesday, October 23:

• 9-12, Queering Redneck
• 1-4, Mano de Obra

Thursday, October 24:

• 9-12, Mano de Obra
• 1-4, Queering Redneck series

Friday, October 25:

• 9-12, Queering Redneck series
• 1-4, Mano de Obra

About the Artists

• Amber Imrie uses their background growing up in a back-to-the-lander family in the Arkansas Ozarks to intertwine practices of textile arts with photography to address concepts of labor and leisure, and “queer” the landscape by suggesting alternative forms of care models. 
• Shey Rí Acu Rivera Ríos, who is from Puerto Rico and currently lives in Rhode Island, uses interdisciplinary works to connect communities suffering from the impacts of overarching colonial and capitalist narratives by drawing in aspects of home and belonging