Dani & Sheilah ReStack: Shameless Light

1 Jan-1 Feb 2023

Overview

Mimosa House, in partnership with Camden Art Centre, presents ‘Shameless Light’, a video installation to be shown in the gallery’s vitrine by artists Dani & Sheilah ReStack.

Shameless Light is an ongoing performance that invites lesbian and queer identified women and non-binary people to read love letters they have written, under red neon lights. Shameless Light was begun in 2016 in Carizzozo, New Mexico after the US election. Since then, letters have been written, and read, by community members at the Wexner Center in Columbus, OH, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, Leslie Lohman Project Space in NY, Athena Grand, Athens, OH, TCU Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas and UIC, Chicago, IL. Shameless Light privileges love as a generative, unruly and potentially radical act. It is a venue for queer desire. 

Thank you to letter writers:

Gabriela Cala-Lesina
Reva Gauntlett
Christa Holka
bones tan jones
Sarah Nimmo
Fa-Zah Raha 
Mary W

About the artists:

Dani’s work is made with an emotional logic, questioning cultural, personal and animal realities. She got her MFA at UIC in 2003 in Sculpture and an MFA in Film/Video at Bard College in 2010. She has screened at Union Docs, Oberhausen, Rotterdam, MoMA PS1, Anthology Film Archives and Projections.
Sheilah uses photography, video, and text as performative and documentary tools to analyze the traces between history, story and the land. Sheilah got her MFA from Goldsmith College in London in 2005. She has had exhibitions at Ortega y Gasset Projects, The Knockdown Center, Queen Elizabeth Park, New Zealand and the Albuquerque Museum.

Their recent collaborations have shown at Camden Art Center, MoMA, TCU Contemporary, the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Iceberg Projects Chicago, Toronto International Film Festival, Images Film Festival, Toronto, Lyric Theater, Carrizozo, NM, Leslie Lohman Project Space, Gaa Wellfleet and The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio.

Produced by Camden Art Centre and presented in partnership with Mimosa House, the installation will screen concurrently at Camden Art Centre and Mimosa House through January 2023.