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Assembly is pleased to present a selection of recent work by David Alekhuogie and Cristina Velásquez for Foundations. These up-and-coming talents both tell stories of cultural translation through vibrant imagery and experimental material play. Alekhuogie’s fabric collages on canvas and Velázquez’s cardboard weavings are both expanding the medium of photography by using meticulous hand-crafted processes to make unique yet iterative works.

Alekhuogie’s body of work, I made this for you, debuted at Assembly in January 2023. With an autobiographical lens, the artist traces a personal history of …