Escenas features the work of seven contemporary photographers—Andina Marie Osorio, Arlene Mejorado, Ashley Peña, Damon Casarez, Diana Guerra, José Ibarra Rizo, and Steven Molina Contreras—based across New York, Georgia, California, and the Dominican Republic. Utilizing performative self-portraiture, anthotype, feminist archival practices, and other strategies, the lens-based artists explore the embodied and relational texture of documenting life as they maneuver racialization, migration, and diaspora. By repurposing material, space, and time, Escenas invites us to contemplate how we hold and are held by the past through practices that allow us to sense, activate, and revere connections with moments that have presumably expired. Escenas presents scenes of life unfolding—a room where personal and collective histories touch and move across times and geographies. 

- Orlando Ochoa, Jr.