Never The Same River Film Screenings and Conversation

Join us for a screening of films by artists Adama Delphine Fawundu and Anoushka Mirchandani, followed by a conversation led by curator Dexter Wimberly about their work featured in the exhibition, Never The Same River.

In 2011, Fawundu’s sons, Amal (thirteen), Che (eleven), and Kofi (seven), visited Freetown, Sierra Leone, for the first time. At Numba 2 Beach, the artist recorded them as they immersed themselves in play along the oceanfront, resulting in the short film For my Suns…because you were always free (2021). Against the strong current and wind, their spontaneous words and play took on an unexpected symbolism.

Mirchandani’s film Landscapes of Longing (2024) reflects on and excavates identity, migration, and generational womanhood. In conversation with texts by various authors, the film interweaves the amorphous dreams, memories, sounds, and untold stories of Mirchandani’s matrilineage, making palpable the ripples of dissonance passed down through generations. Landscapes of Longing is a film by Alisha Tejpal, Mireya Martinez, and Anoushka Mirchandani.

This event is presented as part of the current gallery exhibition Never The Same River on view through December 5.

About the Speakers

Adama Delphine Fawundu (b. 1971, Brooklyn, NY) is a first generation visual artist born in Brooklyn, NY with heritage from Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. Ms. Fawundu is a co-author/editor of the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. This book features over 100 women photographers of African descent from around the globe. Fawundu was featured in the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary film, In Our Mother’s Garden directed by Shantrelle P. Lewis. Her awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, Catchlight Fellowship, Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant as well as the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship amongst other awards. She received her MFA from Columbia University.

She has presented public installations at Prospect Park in Brooklyn and Federal Hall in New York City. Solo show exhibitions and performances include, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Newark Museum of Art, Art@Bainbridge/Princeton University, The Penumbra Foundation, The Miller Theater at Columbia University, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, African American Museum in Philadelphia and Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts & Culture amongst others.

In 2026, Fawundu released her first monograph Praise House on Archive Books. Also, her artist book In Search of the Spirit House was published by Express Newark and Project for Empty Space. Biennials include the 36th São Paulo Bienal (Brazil), the 1st Malta Biennale and The 12th Edition of the Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial (Mali).

Her National and International exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum of Art, Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Maryland Institute of Art, Moody Center for the Arts, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Chale Wote Art Festival (Ghana), Norton Museum of Art the California African American Museum amongst others.  She has participated in artist residencies at The Center for Book Arts, The African Artist Foundation (Nigeria), Sacatar Institute (Brazil), The Penumbra Foundation, Indigo Arts Foundation, BRIC Workspace Residency and Project for Empty Space. Her printmaking collaborations include the Brandywine Workshop and Archives the Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University. Her works can be found in the collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Newark Museum of Art, Princeton University Museum, Bryn Mawr College, The Brooklyn Historical Society, The Norton Museum of Art, The David C. Driskell Center (University of Maryland), The Petrucci Family Foundation as well as private collections.

Headshot image credit Amal Buford

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Anoushka Mirchandani (b. 1988, Pune, India) uses painting as a form of agency—an ongoing process of locating and relocating identity across shifting contexts. After emigrating from India to the United States at 18, she discovered new freedoms while confronting the complexities of belonging and loss.

Over the past decade, she has cultivated a visual language that mirrors this interplay of concealment and revelation, expressing the layered nature of selfhood. Her paintings center on figures suspended between repose and action—often women posed with quiet confidence, unbothered by expectations of modesty or restraint. Their bodies dissolve into surrounding forms, delineated only by gestures of oil stick or pastel. The tension between bold poses and vanishing contours evokes questions of visibility and vulnerability: what parts of ourselves do we suppress, and what do we allow to emerge in unfamiliar spaces?

Mirchandani’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The FLAG Art Foundation (New York, 2026); Institute of Contemporary Art (San Jose, 2026); Yossi Milo (New York, 2024); Galerie Isa (Mumbai, 2023); UTA Artist Space (Los Angeles, 2023); Rhodes Contemporary (London, 2021); and Glass Rice Gallery (San Francisco, 2020). Her film Landscapes of Longing screened at MoMA as part of New Directors/New Films (2025).

The Artist has participated in residencies with The Sherman Family Foundation, in collaboration with The Baltimore Museum of Art (2026); The Arctic Circle (2026); Silver Art Projects, New York (2025-26); Wassaic Project, New York (2022), and others.

Her work is held in the collections of the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), the Museum of Art and Photography (Bangalore), and Northwestern University (Chicago).

Headshot image credit Kari Orvik

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Dexter Wimberly is an American entrepreneur and curator based in Japan who has organized exhibitions in galleries and institutions around the world, including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City; Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas; The Harvey B. Gantt Center in Charlotte; KOKI Arts and STANDING PINE in Tokyo; BODE in Berlin; Lehmann Maupin in London; SECCI in Milan; Efie Gallery; and The Third Line in Dubai.

Wimberly’s recent exhibitions include Derrick Adams: View Master at ICA/Boston; The Shape of Things to Come at Efie Gallery in Dubai, UAE; A Material Dance: Lucio Fontana and Alteronce Gumby at SECCI in Milan, Italy; A Direct Response to Light: 21st Century Painting at ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN in New York City; and What is Possible, What is Promised at Galerie Isa in Mumbai, India. In 2023, Wimberly participated in Hauser & Wirth’s International Curatorial Residency Symposium in Somerset, England. His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times and Artforum and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Kinkade Family Foundation. Wimberly has been profiled in Elle Decor and Artnet News. He is the founder and director of the Hayama Artist Residency and The Kyoto Retreat in Japan. Wimberly is the co-founder of Art World Conference and CreativeStudy. Prior to his curatorial career, he was the managing partner of the New York-based advertising and marketing agency August Bishop, representing a diverse array of clients including Adidas, The Coca-Cola Company, and HBO.

Headshot image credit Herman L. Jean-Noë