# @publicartfund on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DHbOh08MDz7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27540296-publicartfund-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-20T15:00:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Public Art Fund (@publicartfund) — https://gondola.cc/publicartfund

## Caption

JUST ANNOUNCED: Starting May 6, 2025, "Torkwase Dyson: Akua" is set to open at Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park. This is the artist’s first major public installation in New York City. "Akua" is a large, open pavilion with an immersive multi-channel soundscape that expands Dyson’s ongoing investigations of shape, light, and scale. 

"Akua" explores new sonic encounters between bodies and environments. Using sound recordings, Dyson transforms a 20-foot-high steel-and-aluminum pavilion into what the artist envisions as a spatial drawing. Visitors are invited to enter the pavilion, where they can sit and experience recorded sound moving across eight speakers, including layered conversations from Black archives, nature field recordings, and electronic sounds.

Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. She frequently creates compositions of three “hypershapes”—a rectangular box, a triangle, and a trapezoid. Each form references a historical person who escaped confinement through a space of that shape.

Dyson’s art practice engages with histories of Black migration, architecture, and environmental systems through large-scale outdoor commissions that explore architectural scale across diverse sites. Her repeating geometric language, comprising curves, triangles, and rectangles, is inspired by architectural spaces used for escape and transformation. With "Akua," Dyson prompts audiences to consider the space between words and silence, and what it can reveal.

"Torkwase Dyson: Akua" is curated by Public Art Fund Senior Curator Melanie Kress with Assistant Curator Jenée-Daria Strand.

"Akua" will be on view at Pier 1 Bridgeview Lawn in brooklynbridgepark from May 6 through March 8, 2026. The exhibition can be explored anytime, anywhere, on the free bloombergconnects app.

Learn more about the artist and exhibition at our #linkinbio

📷 : 
#TorkwaseDyson
Photography by Suzie Howell
Courtesy pacegallery

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