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The Birds Sang Until the Sky Broke
Curated by Julia Cella, featuring works by Ali Arévalo, Sangre de María, Lotte Frances, Annika Sunne, Lisa Vander Plaetse, and Julia Cella.
June 13th – July 31st, opening reception on Friday, June 13h from 19h. In conjunction with Art Nou Emerging Arts Festival 2025, there will be a second artist reception on Thursday June 26th from 19h
The Birds Sang Until the Sky Broke embodies a fantastical, sacred, queer utopia, home to a world where joy holds suffering, where love and trauma intertwine. Through a richly layered and nonlinear narrative, the artists manifest a fleeting world of our own–an ephemeral sanctuary that embraces all who step within it.
The works carry an undercurrent of the past—of wounds and wisdom—revealing how harnessed histories fuel radical imagination. The Birds Sang Until the Sky Broke becomes a site of exaltation, yet not without spectral echoes. Joy and suffering, past and present, destruction and rebirth—all coexist within this sacred space.
This exhibition is an invitation: to step into a queer utopia where community is both refuge and revolution, where art reclaims and reimagines, and where the act of storytelling becomes an act of divine transformation.
Curator – Julia Cella approaches curation as a form of storytelling, crafting immersive environments where personal memory, queer mythology, and material histories intertwine. Her work opens a space for exploring memory, radical revolution & divine transformation. The Birds Sang Until the Sky Broke marks her curatorial debut.
