Cuban born performer and scholar, Yesenia Fernandez Selier holds an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from NYU. Yesenia’s is the recipient of fellowships from CLASCO and the CUNY Caribbean Exchange Program of Hunter College and recognized for her work preserving Latino heritage by the “Save Latin America Organization”. Her work on Afro Cuban culture, encompassing dance, music and race identity has been published in Cuba, United States and Brazil. Yesenia is an accomplished actress and dancer, and instructor of Cuban and Afro Cuban dance. She founded in 2011 The Ibiono Cultural Association, with Master Afro Cuban Drummer Roman Diaz, focused on the continuity of the Afro Cuban Legacy, in New York City.

A peek into the forthcoming show by Anne Mourier, hosted by the Alliance Francaise in Venice, Italy at the Casino Venier.

This is a teaser video we made for the forthcoming solo show of my dear friend, Anne Mourier. The work is part of a larger piece on women artists. Anne's show opens on Saturday September 7, 2013 at a new temporary space, built for this purpose, adjacent to the Invisible Dog Art space. Anne's work is both powerful and accessible. In her first-ever solo exhibition, Anne Mourier magnifies her miniaturized meditations on memory, maternity, and humanity. Drawing from a childhood of invisible mothers and family secrets, Mourier’s sculptures, photographs, and works on paper keep up the appearances of a happy home while subtly symptomatic of a fraudulent façade. Delicate and quiet handmades, readymades, and personal keepsakes are vessels for the introverted voice of Mourier’s reflections on her youthful naïveté, their pristine pastel and white palette invoking a dialogue that questions the cleanliness of the family construct, the gratification of the domestic domain, and the power of denial. Cleaning It Up will be the premier exhibition to christen the Invisible Dog’s new temporary gallery space, located adjacent to 51 Bergen Street. Designed by Mourier from reclaimed windows, this transparent time capsule combines the elements of a typical house into a single-room structure, nestled cozily and guarded safely in-between its taller neighbors. A sculpture in and of itself, the gallery continues Mourier’s investigation of glass as a medium and its inherent metaphorical implications as a tactic of keeping viewers out while still letting them see in. This voyeuristic view of what would otherwise happen behind closed doors allows viewers to follow Mourier as she tidies up her miscomprehension of the family model and shatters the moral lens she was raised to respect. She thought she lived in a little box when she lived in a glass house. Anne Mourier is artist resident at The Invisible Dog

History must be written of, by and for the survivors -- Anonymous I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. - CG Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections The Vilayati Tarti/Foreign Land Project Chronicles the story of women, mostly Punjabi women, who, in the decades following the Partition of India, left for England in search of work and found themselves in Southall, a town in the outer suburbs of West London, to where thousands of people from the Punjab migrated in the decades following the partition of India. Now five decades later, Southall has come t0 be affectionately called “Little Punjab” or "Little India." The documentary film is part of a larger oral history project that seeks to explore issues of migration, displacement and the attendant experiences of establishing new lives in foreign lands. The project, inspired by my maternal grandmother who lived and died in Southall, is based on video and audio interviews with the women in the diasporic South Asian community in, Southall and environs. The project currently exists as an 11-minute documentary short, additional video segments, a photo essay and this website which is intended to serve as an electronic archive and resource.