OPTICVOICES: Mama’s Boys is an interactive, mixed-media exhibit that retracts from romanticizing the loss of sons due to systemic violence and orbits the process of what healing looks like for mothers. 

This exhibit, encourages healing and aims to fossilize the legacy and love of sons through the vessel of cinematic and provocative storytelling captured through the galvanizing lens of Emmy Award-winning, multidisciplinary artist, Emmai Alaquiva. 

THERE IS NO LOVE LIKE THAT OF A MOTHER.

THIS INTERACTIVE. MIXED-MEDIA EXHIBIT RETRACTS FROM ROMANTICIZING THE LOSS OF SONS DUE TO SENSELESS VIOLENCE AND ORBITS THE PROCESS OF WHAT HEALING LOOKS LIKE FOR MOTHERS. IT AIMS TO FOSSILIZE THE LEGACY AND LOVE OF SONS THROUGH THE VESSEL OF CINEMATIC AND PROVOCATIVE STORYTELLING. 

THE IMAGES-LADEN WITH HEAVY SYMBOLISM-ILLUSTRATE THE KINDRED JOURNEYS OF MOTHERS AROUND THE WORLD SHARED THROUGH ARTISTIC LOVE LETTERS IN THE FORM OF PHOTOGRAPHY. FILM. MIXED MEDIA. AND
AUGMENTED REALITY. 

OPTICVOICES: MAMA’S BOYS ALLOWS ONE TO TAKE AN INSPIRATIONAL AND OPTIMISTIC JOURNEY ON THE PATH TOWARD HEALING. THEIR LIVES. THEIR LOVE, LIVES ON.

presented as part of the AWAACC B. U.I.L.D Residency made possible with support from the Richard King Mellon Foundation