The Ruby is a catalyst for creativity and a home for making art at Duke.
The Ruby is a catalyst for creativity and a home for making art at Duke.
Ruby Fridays: Cornered
Open To The Public
Experience Cornered, a visual representation of the struggles of migrants trying to navigate the dangerous chokepoints between Moroccan and Spanish territory, by Duke animator and video artist Raquel Salvatella de Prada.
Ruby Lounge at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive Durham,
NC
27705United States
Description
Drop by the Ruby at noon on Friday for a casual art talk and free lunch! Speakers include Duke faculty and students who have produced work during a Rubenstein Arts Center arts project residency, as well as visiting artists and local NC creatives. Learn about the behind-the-scenes aspect of the creative process, careers in the arts, and more.
Cornered is a new video installation by Raquel Salvatella de Prada, a professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke. It represents the motivation and struggles of African immigrants leaving their home country and making an attempt, most often failed, to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish cities of Melilla and Ceuta, the only European cities on Africa’s mainland.
This Ruby Friday event is your opportunity learn about this multifaceted and collaborative work from its creator, and then experience it yourself.
This fall, the Nasher Museum, Rubenstein Arts Center, John Hope Franklin Center and the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library have collaborated to present a multi-site art installation, In Transit: Arts & Migration Around Europe. At the Nasher Museum, In Transit: Arts & Migration Around Europe introduces, through art, a new history and context to the ongoing global refugee crisis. Duke undergraduate students and professors Helen Solterer, Elvira Vilches and other members of the In Transit research group, Raquel Salvatella de Prada and Pedro Lasch, contributed to the exhibition through seminars and conversations.
Cornered is a video installation that represents the motivation and struggles of African immigrants making an attempt to cross the border from Morocco to Spain.
