Trajectories: Liberated Pathways through Makeup, Photography, and Jewelry, opens May 10th! Trajectories is a multi-media exhibition project that envisions personal and structural trajectories without the shackles of oppression.
What paths would we have taken without colonial restrictions? What would we have explored? What mistakes would we have learned from? How would we understand our stories and our concept of time?
Join for a series of free events throughout the exhibition.
Open Hours: Tuesdays and Saturdays, 5–8pm
May 10, 6–9 PM: Opening Reception
May 16, 6–8 PM: Dreaming as a Tool: a whimsical collage with flowers and glitter: Duke Arts Create Workshop with Jac Michel
May 22, 4–6 PM: Storytelling and Teach-In: Sudan and Global Liberation Struggles by Doha Medani from Muslim Women For
May 29, 4–6 PM: Teach-In: Genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the Kotla Collective
June 6, 6–9 PM: Community Bingo Night with Dinner Provided [RSVP Link TBA]
June 8, 4–6 PM: Closing Reception with a Slow Art Tour from Gail MD Belvett, DDS
Project Credits:
Makeup: Maya Ghanem and Nashia Ogbuagu
Photography: Maya Ghanem and Nashia Ogbuagu
Jewelry: Maya Ghanem
Meet Maya!
Maya Ghanem
Maya (they/she) is an aspiring researcher, community builder, and artist focusing on queer Muslim solidarity. Basing their work with queer Muslim community in Durham, they organize prayer services, social events, artist workshops, scholarly talks, Ramadan dinners, and political involvement. Receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the International Comparative Studies Department at Duke, Maya wrote their honors thesis on queer Muslims and environmental futurisms, highlighting the interconnected potential to break Orientalist queer/Muslim and human/nature binaries. Maya also published an article in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal on a queer and decolonial approach to sexual ethics while analyzing Arab media. In their first art installation at VAE Raleigh, Maya explored relational subjectivity, incorporating queer and Muslim elements into make-up and photography portraits of her close friends.
