On Saturday night, we hosted the premiere of Body Work, a film by Brooklyn filmmaker Steph Jones. The film moves through bodies, citiscapes from vintage American footage, distortions, and transformations. Bodies appear, dissolve, and return in new forms. It’s playful, provocative with a beautiful transcendence to it.
The audience brought the kind of energy that makes us excited to host events: people who make things, imagine things, and are curious about what other people are making and imagining. People arrived ready to engage, talk, laugh, and share ideas.
Visitors spent time looking closely at Unboxed: Black Fathers Are Present, the exhibition by Dáreece Walker currently on view in the gallery. Conversations sparked in front of the works and continued throughout the night. Seeing people engage with the artwork as part of the evening’s experience is exactly what we hope for.
After the screening, Steph and their friend Cilla kept the celebration going with drinks, bites, and a DJ set. People lingered, met new faces, exchanged ideas, and settled into the kind of warm, easy atmosphere that makes a gathering enjoyable.
Art doesn’t have to be formal or intimidating. Our mission is to create experiences that are welcoming, social, and alive, At Gallery Particulier, people can encounter visual art spontaneously, in community. Saturday night felt like a perfect example of that.
Thank you to Steph, Cilla, and everyone who came. We are so glad to support local talent. We left feeling inspired, energized, and reminded that creativity is as much about gathering as it is about making, and that is another meaning of the NYC melting pot!
