Raque Ford?s checkered plexiglass dance floor on view in Brooklyn for the B-side: (Broken) Memory and Remix group exhibition exemplifies elements of Hip-Hop.

Group exhibition B-side: (Broken) Memory and Remix draws upon and immortalizes methods crucial to the preservation of Black innovation and experience as told through Hip-Hop?s production techniques reimagined: sampling, splicing, and storytelling. Exemplary of these elements is Raque Ford?s checkered plexiglass dance floor on view at Brooklyn?s BRIC House through January 21st. Within the exhibit?s expansive, interactive framework ? in some ways literally ? lies the potential to fashion fresh futures from cultural artifacts with a poetic resonance sure to continue long after the show closes. The physical 12-foot-by-12-foot dance floor surface is an amalgam of laser cut acrylic tiles in deep teal, black, tangerine, and metallic silver. The monotype prints relate materially and through content, often remixing elements from previous projects, featuring texts that are painted prior to lamination on yellow rubber atop an MDF platform. The narrative composition is intimate and derived from Ford?s own repository.

?I typically keep my writing in the notes app on my phone. It?s a mix of my personal musings and what I?ve overheard or read that I?m drawn to. I keep a diary of sorts for all this and when it?s time to make a work I reread through it and add and merge thoughts that I feel reflect where I am at the moment ...