On the occasion of the exhibition Quinha Faria: Receptors, Kiang Malingue New York is pleased to present a gathering of sound and reading on Friday, March 13, 6pm. Writer Joselia Hughes and composer YATTA will respond to and interweave with Faria’s hand-carved and textile-based paintings, woven sculptures and installations, animating ongoing dialogues around perceptions, perspectives, ways of being with others. and the generative growth and unbinding of the open knot. Through engaging sensory reception across materials, language, and sound, they push form in their respective disciplines.

Quinha Faria works across painting, sculpture, and installation. Her years working in critical care nursing at the hospital bedside shaped her interest in what cannot be collected or measured, and in the connections that emerge across overlapping networks inside and beyond the human body. Through hands-on making and close attention to how materials respond, she explores the porous relationships between physiologic, social, and environmental systems. She received an MFA from Bard College and holds a BS in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Human Physiology from the University of Oregon. Her work has been exhibited at Asian Arts Initiative, Vox Populi, Mural Arts (Philadelphia), and Carnation Contemporary (Portland). Faria works and lives in Portland and New York City, USA.

Joselia Hughes is a writer, artist, educator, and freelance access worker based in New York. She is committed to the propulsion of narrative and the subversion of wordplay to incite riots of resistance and steady fires of hope. She slips and hops in lineages of Black disabled aesthetics and linguistics. Employing myths, oral traditions, fiction, serious silliness, vernacular conveyances, and archetypes of The Fool, she questions and provokes perceptions and values regarding chronic illness, Madness, neurodivergence, and disability. She is the author of the chapbooks I Need Fucking Space Like Fuck (Boundaries, 2025) and ½ The Pressure 2x The Speed (Eureka Press, 2025). Her writing has been published in Apogee Journal, Massachusetts Review, The Poetry Project, Split This Rock, Blackflash Magazine, Leste Magazine, Jewish Currents, and Ocean State Review. She has exhibited and shared her work at MoCA Cleveland, Institute of Contemporary Art: VCU, Participant Inc., Lincoln Center, MoMA, Leslie Lohman Museum, Bard College, Swarthmore College, and Whitney Museum of American Art. She is currently a MFA candidate in writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

YATTA is a Sierra Leonean-American artist and composer working across music, performance, and installation. Their approach to sound and performance is characterized by textural electronic sounds, improvisation, and sampling, infused with spirituality and surprise. Their recent exploration takes inspiration from palm wine music, the West African musical genre named after the traditional drink, which incorporates storytelling, lilting vocals, and slants towards levity, ease, and play. Their work has been presented at MoMA, MoMA PS1, The Getty, The Kitchen, and Pioneer Works, and featured in Pitchfork and The Wire. They hold an MFA in Music + Sound from the Milton Avery School for the Arts at Bard College.

The event is free to the public and will last approximately an hour.