UNION Project
Photographic Center Northwest is excited to announce UNION, a public art project in partnership with SeaLevel Properties and Lumenarius in 2024. UNION will feature artwork projected on the south facing wall of the Woodworth Apartments building (953 E. Union Street) in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Beginning each night at dusk all year long, neighbors and visitors will witness a 60’ tall projected exhibition of works from local and regional artists.
The exhibition will rotate every two months, and is curated by Photographic Center Northwest staff with support from the Capitol Hill Arts District. Each exhibition is projected on the south-facing wall of Woodworth Apartments with a wide viewing area stretching along 10th Ave to Madison and beyond.
Current UNION Artist:
Simon Benjamin’s film FORUM IV (2016) will be screened on the Woodworth building, on view April 7 – May 15, 2024 daily from dusk to 11pm.
This event is in partnership with the Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency program, organized by Guest Curator Berette S Macaulay.
About the artist:
Simon Benjamin is a Jamaican multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker based in New York whose practice considers how the past ripples into the present in unexpected ways. Using the sea and coastal space as frameworks, his current body of work explores how lesser-known histories and colonial legacies impact our present and contribute to an interconnected future.
His work has been included in exhibitions and screenings internationally, including Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania (2023), Baxter St. CCNY, New York NY (2023); documenta 15, Kassel, Germany (2022); Kingston Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (2022); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governor’s Island, NY; Third Horizon film Festival, Miami, FL (2022); trinidad+tobago film festival, Trinidad and Tobago (2021); NYU Gallatin at Governors Island, New York, NY (2021); The 92nd St. Y, New York, NY (2020); Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY (2019); the Ghetto Biennial, Port Au Prince, Haiti (2018); Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (2017); New Local Space, (NLS) Kingston (2016); and Columbia University, New York, NY (2016).