"OUR HEAVEN is the unification of Asian & Pacific mixed-media artists. It incorporates the concept of 天下 (tiānxià/tien-hsia), which means 'Under Heaven,' the ideology was meant to unify all nations as one under heaven. OUR HEAVEN is intended to provide a space and bring visibility to Asian artists in the Bay Area and to dismantle the Eurocentric perspective of the western art space.
We would also like to emphasize that East Asian privilege exists and tends to saturate "Asianness" and cause erasure of mixed, South, South East, West, Central, and Pacific Asians. Asian culture is not a monolith! We will not tolerate this in our space. Please prioritize multiethnic/, brown, black, and Latinx -/Asian bodies here. We witness you, and this is for you."
Photography by:
0752am
18%GREY
Adrian Discipulo
Belden Granada
Quan Danny Tran
Roan Bontempo
Rocky Nguyen
Illustrations by:
Aaron Coleman
Monique Miller
Mudbloodead
Nam MacNguyen
Olivya Nora
Samantha Huang
Saoirse Alesandro
Nathalie Spicy Nguyen
Poetry by:
Mudbloodead
Sean Carino
Visuals by:
Josiah Columna
Beats by:
Arumi
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