In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, MoMI presents Queens-born artist ray ferreira’s video An echo wails, whispers an undulating pattern during the weekend of November 15-17. Transgender Day of Remembrance celebrates queer visibility and remembers transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming persons whose lives were lost in acts of targeted violence.

Exploring the connections between queerness, embodiment, and speculative fiction, this video installation looks at bodies as sources of labor power, their ideological construction, and the possibilities granted by history and indeterminate futures. Remixing time and space, artist ray ferreira uses poetic statements and blunt ramblings as she ponders how her body is situated in the world. The ocean, both metaphorically and historically, becomes a space in which she floats, sinks, and dances. With a dark blue, wavy ocean animated like a gif and an electronic dance beat in the background, ray vocalizes her thoughts through a non-human, alien/cyborg voice further delving into the land of an other. The words spoken are influenced by a mixture of cultures—like ray herself, who is a queer, Black Latina.

On November 15, 5:30–8:00 p.m., in collaboration with The American LGBTQ+ Museum, we will host an opening event including poetry readings by ray ferreira and Paolo Javier, and an artists’ discussion with Imara Jones, followed by a reception.

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