A SILENCE SO LOUD, A GROUP EXHIBITION PRESENTED BY DARK LAB
BROOKLYN, NY, Dark Lab is pleased to present A Silence So Loud an installation featuring works by artists Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Johann Diedrick, Jeremy Dennis, and Sim Chi Yin on view at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA-NY) in Brooklyn, New York, co-curated by Tao Leigh Goffe and Cecile Chong. Part of the curatorial vision of the two NYC-based artists who collaborate under the name Broken China, the group exhibition is the first of an ongoing series of multi-sensorial activations on the topic of what colonialism fractures. The second activation in the series will take place by invitation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the third at the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica (May 2025). Founded to explore histories fragmented under colonialism, the creative practice Broken China allows the two to linger on the texture and materiality of art that engages with archival process. The gallery exhibition threads together military histories of Shinnecock Nation, Jamaica, British Malaya, Morocco, and Vietnam, collectively addressing the weight of imperial violence, what is left unsaid, and the ethics of who that disinherits. There is a silence so loud that it keeps secrets from the future. Challenging the dominant myths of U.S., French and British empires, the artists disturb what has become buried over the generations. What, they ask, does silence communicate?
Inspired by the poetics of Nguyen’s video installation Because No One Living Will Listen, which explores wounded familial intimacies between North Africa and Southeast Asia, the exhibition is structured around the resonance of letter writing in the diaspora, and the potential speculative power of the epistolary form to heal. As Jamaican novelist Marlon James writes, “The dead are always talking, and sometimes the living hear.” The four artists use text, photography, sonic sculpture, and video, to not only hear but tune into the rebellious lower frequencies of ongoing battles for sovereignty.
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, March 15 - Sunday, April 13, 2025
Location: Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 1329 Willoughby Ave, #2A, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm, and by appointment
Opening: Saturday, March 15, 2025, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sonic Activation: Sunday, April 13, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm