Currents/Correntes is a collaboration between Cyriaco Lopes and Terri Witek. The exhibition will open with a reception on Friday, November 7 from 5 to 9pm. The artists will give a performative talk in the museum during the reception, at 6pm. Their performance will be presented in conjunction with the 2014 Other Words Conference, organized by the Florida Literary Arts Council.

The photographs included in the exhibition, printed on fabric as well as mounted to acrylic, along with the accompanying sound, are the documentation of both a philosophical and physical investigation of the waters of their own origins, but also those waters in and between the places they now call their homes - New York and Florida. "Looking out over water is such an ancient human position," Witek says, and the way Lopes could make that "static, hieratic gesture 'materialize'" fascinated her. Witek continues, "The water fabrics seemed to argue that just as memories are carried, so whole oceans can be carried." One of her favorite stages of the project was bringing waters from the new worlds of Brazil and the US back to the old world in Portugal and England. Witek became the "water bearer" on those journeys while Lopes carried the camera, the idea of carrying oceans as long as they have carried us, just one of the prompts urging them on. The result is an ongoing performance that traces these ideas of movement and being carried, but also a coming together -- a perfect embodiment of almost 10 years of friendship and collaboration.