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The Carol Shen Gallery hosted an exhibit by Jenny Perez: No Longer A Distant Memory. Siempreviva, or “Pearly Everlasting" is a personal and culturally resonant installation of plates that immerses viewers in Perez’s exploration of memory, identity, and heritage. In the Caribbean, sugar carries the weight of colonialism, labor, and survival. Perez reclaims sugar, shaping it into delicate, transient plates, each holding fragments of her past. These plates echo the decorative plates she remembers from her childhood and also speaks to the fragility of memory within her own family.
The paintings are taken from Perez’s most recent solo show, a series of biomorphic shaped canvases for which she is better known. The imagery found in her most recent body of work represents the shadows of her past, and the whispers of her forward journey, as she commands it.
No Longer A Distant Memory | Winter 2025
