The High Wall 2022
Projection dates: July 21-24, 2022
Screening dusk to midnight
Inscape Arts Building, Seattle, WA
Curated by: Kelly Lee Webeck and Jesse Egner of Strange Fire Collective
Exhibiting artists: Brandon Tho Harris, Julie Lee, and Kei Ito
The High Wall 2022—in partnership with Strange Fire Collective— presented three video works projected on the facade of the Inscape Arts Building in Seattle, WA. Inscape resides in a former immigration detention center; because of the building’s history we have selected artists whose work explore broad ideas of immigration, diaspora, and borderlands. We are proud to have chosen Kei Ito, Brandon Tho Harris, and Julie Lee - three artists who examine these themes through the use of photography and the moving image. Although each piece is presented as a video, the artists each utilize the medium and materiality of still photography. Photograms, a vernacular family photo archive, and glitched google map images each make connections about migration, place, community, family, and home.