Frank-Ratchye Project Space - Angela Buencamino Phung
Image: Malina Abella Salud (excerpts), 2020, artist’s original text xeroxed, 8 x 10 in
The Frank-Ratchye Project Space presents Malina Abella Salud, a new body of work by Studio Artist Angela Buencamino Phung. Wading through a deep well of re-adaptation, self-evaluation and healing, Phung has created a beautiful compilation of visual and written work, bound together into a book, and brought to life through movement and performance. Inspired by poet Ocean Vuong, she mines the perennial power of being and art making to heal intergenerational traumas and tend to her community. Phung uses evocative texts and xeroxed archival familial photos to traverse past, present and future histories, creating a sense of timelessness throughout every page.
View her solo exhibition Malina Abella Salud on Root Division Virtual on view from December 9-22, 2020.
Angela (she/ her) is an artist and educator currently based in Oakland CA/Ohlone Land, and was born and raised in Sacramento/Nisenan Land. She creates art through writing, installation, textile, performance, and digital media. Phung’s interdisciplinary practice is grounded in a persistent curiosity about the potential of a collective imagination. Rejecting the notion of monolithic hxstory and disrupting Eurocentric knowledge through projects that center silences and invisibilities that are local, global, personal, and familial. Many of her projects take the form of alternative archives, ancestral or embodied knowledge and recasted narratives.
