Across ebb and flow

Explore an immersive multimedia exhibition that blends installation, movement, photography and poetry to examine how identity is shaped across shifting geographies and states of being. Featuring the work of artists L.A. Samuelson and Amanda Bradley, the exhibition invites reflection on home, memory and cultural belonging through both individual and collaborative artistic practices.

Across ebb and flow is on view June 26 through September 30 at the Monsignor William Barry Library at Barry University. Presented by Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI), the exhibition features sculptural and performative installation by Samuelson—an interdisciplinary choreographer and 2024–2025 Movement Lab Research Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design—alongside photographic and text-based work by Bradley, a Belizean American artist whose practice centers landscape as a vessel for memory and connection.

Samuelson’s Telegraph Valley incorporates house frames, ladders, floating decks, rotating lights and a solo dancer to reconsider the body not as a static container but as a dynamic site of transition and vulnerability. Bradley’s From One Sea uses imagery of the ocean to create a participatory visual poem, inviting viewers to move through a narrative that frames water as both a threshold and a space of diasporic resonance.

The exhibition opens with a reception on Thursday, June 26 from 5 to 8 p.m., including a 7 p.m. performance of Telegraph Valley, developed in collaboration with dramaturg Elle Hong and sound artist Adam Stone. Co-commissioned by the National Performance Network, the project has received support from partners including the Doris Duke Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

An artist conversation, moderated by curators Rosie Gordon-Wallace and Lauryn Lawrence, will be held Saturday, June 28 from 2 to 4 p.m., offering further insight into the artists’ creative processes and collaborative exchange.

Across ebb and flow is presented by DVCAI at Barry and can be viewed during regular library hours. Admission is free and open to the public.