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Bending towards the Light of the Sun begins in two local archives – the National Land for People archive at California State University, Fresno, home to an extensive collection of the group’s land activist printed matter and ephemera, and artist Nancy Youdelman’s personal archive, consisting of early performance documentation, collaborations with other artists in Judy Chicago’s Feminist Art Program at Fresno State, and Youdelman’s cathartic experiments with casting and using her body as material in her work.
From there, it expands. Like the city itself, it sprawls outward, with installations by an intergenerational group of artists connected to the history of land, activism, and art in the region; film screenings, artist publications, public workshops and talks.
Maia Ballis, Caleb Duarte, Carissa Garcia, Laguna Collective, R.L. Muas, Sylvia Savala, Christian Vargas, Nancy Youdelman.
Bending towards the Light of the Sun is anchored by archival materials relating to Fresno’s history of activism and art making, in the form of printed matter by Fresno-based radical land activist group National Land for People (NLP).