Cinema Red | May 2 - June 6
Tiff Tran & Wasima Farah
Curated by YAYASAGA
Cinema Red is presented by Public Functionary, in partnership with the artists and collectives behind CineFilmu, to explore the intersection of contemporary art and cinema. The program responds to ongoing conversations about the marginalization of moving-image artists, the challenges of entering exhibition contexts, and the emergence of new forms of presentation — centering artists who are navigating, or hope to navigate, these overlapping worlds.
The exhibition takes color as both a sensorial experience and a conceptual anchor. Shifting between love, blood, memory, and resistance, Cinema Red asks: where do we locate ourselves within the primary color, red?
Rooted in Minneapolis, where red carries the weight of violence, grief, and survival, the exhibition takes place in the context of the realities of bloodshed on local streets. Red becomes a site of tension: at once confronting and restorative, reflecting both the fragility of the body and the strength that runs through it. But red is also a color of intimacy and self-regard. The softness of self-love, the depth of connection, and the healing force of care within community.
Through archived films, light, and spatial design, Cinema Red invites audiences to move through red as a living symbol, and an embodied environment that holds both personal and collective stories.
Anchored by a film installation showcase featuring work by Wasima Farah and Tiff Tran, the program also presents a series of gatherings that center emerging QTBIPOC, immigrant, and underrepresented voices in film and photography.
