Terrarium Exhibition panel discussion featuring Amanda L. Andrei, Steven Baboun, Natalie Jauregui-Ortiz, and Jumana Mograbi, about growth as it relates to the individual within a community, and what roles comfort and support both play in that relationship.
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Amanda L. Andrei is an award-winning Filipina Romanian American playwright residing in Los Angeles by way of Washington D.C./Virginia. Her plays and visual art seeks to center the concealed, wounded places of history and societies from the perspectives of diasporic Filipina women. She takes inspiration from her parents’ stories of their homelands, wanderings, and exile to explore and celebrate liminality, hybridity, ancestral healing, and rendering the invisible visible. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of Southern California and an MA in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University.
Steven Baboun is a queer Haitian-Syrian artist from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and based in New York City. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Film and Media Arts as well as a minor in Education Studies from American University and graduated from Parsons School of Design with a Master of Fine Arts in Photography. Baboun is a multimedia artist creating through photography, video, performance, and installation. His work confronts social and political topics in Haiti-- from polarizing and controversial issues to elevating the importance of Haitian culture, family history, and immigration. The phenomena he explores in his work range from the Haitian queer experience, multiculturalism and Haitian identity, toxic social structures such as classicism, discrimination, and political corruption, the lack of acceptance of religions other than Catholicism such as Vodou and Islam to the Haitian gaze, Haitian history and culture, Haitian pride, Haitian beauty and more.
Natalie Jauregui-Ortiz (b. Hayward, CA) is a Mexican-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BA from the University of California – Santa Cruz. She has exhibited work at Southern Exposure, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Sesnon Underground, AlterWork Studios, and Glass Gallery at Mana Contemporary. Residencies include at the New York Academy of Art and at arts, letters, and numbers. Her paintings explore themes of isolation and belonging, collaging together images and memories that echo. Her work employs an intimate vocabulary and documentation of otherness.
Jumana Mograbi is a Syrian Bulgarian photographer currently living and working in New York. Within her practice she documents moments experienced between our public and private world. In 2021 she received her BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design in New York City. Through a diaristic approach rooted in still documentary photography, she explores themes of the home and rituals of domestication while focusing on aspects of memory, identity, and the self.
