Tides: Spatial Memory of Being by Cornelius Tulloch
A site-specific installation for NADA House
September 1 – October 1, 2023
Public Hours: Friday – Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm

Opening Reception
Friday, September 1st, 2:00–5:00 pm

For the fifth edition of NADA House, CUE Art Foundation presents Tides: Spatial Memory of Being, a site-specific installation by Cornelius Tulloch. The work is presented on the porch of Nolan Park House 18 at Governors Island, in conjunction with Tulloch’s solo exhibition at CUE’s gallery space entitled Vendah.

The installation reimagines the porch space of the house by embedding within its railing fabric that depicts collaged scenes of Black and Caribbean domestic life. Screening in the porch space, Tulloch explores the notion of spatial memory within vernacular architecture. A montage of the artist’s archival family photos and imagery of ornamental ironwork are incorporated into the facade of the existing structure. The installation recontextualizes the lived experience of the porch space, and puts it into conversation with other cultural contexts.

Tides builds upon Tulloch’s ongoing practice that explores vernacular architecture to investigate cultural hybridity in tactile and sensory ways. The simple architectural language of the porch allows for a continual transformation. As the entryway to the home and a middle ground between the private interior and the public realm, the porch functions as a threshold between domestic experience and forms of cultural exchange that build community. Referencing the water that surrounds Governors Island, Tulloch connects the site spatially to the archipelagos of his ancestry, reflecting upon the persistent fluidity of people and culture.

Read more about the artist below, and see a full list of participants in NADA House here.

To learn more about Cornelius Tulloch’s solo exhibition at CUE, see here.

About the Artist
Cornelius Tulloch is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and architect. His work transcends boundaries of photography, fine art, and architecture. Tulloch combines and subverts creative mediums to tell powerful stories. Cinematic moments, spatial complexity, light, and color are important characters in his practice. His work explores the importance of cultural identity within built environments and how space shapes culture, which in turn cultivates landscapes.

Tulloch’s work has been shown in institutions such as the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.; NYU Center for Black Visual Culture, New York; Faena Art Project Room, Miami; and the MAXXI, Rome. He was a 2016 Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and his work is presented as part of the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Tulloch has won numerous prizes and residencies; he was named an Emerging Visionary Grantee by Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum’s Black Visionaries Program in 2022, is a two-time Oolite Ellies Award recipient, and received the 2023 YoungArts Jorge M. Perez Award.

Many of Tulloch’s projects have been grounded in his upbringing and communities in Miami, as well as inspired by his Jamaican and African-American heritage. His work expresses the ways in which bodies exist between cultures and borders. Tulloch’s multidisciplinary practice seeks to redefine and reshape the boundaries of art and space.

Project Information:

NADA House 2023:
Friday, September 1 – Sunday, October 1, 2023
Open Friday – Sunday, 11:00 am-5:00 pm
Nolan Park House 18
Governors Island

Opening Reception:
Friday, September 1, 2023
2:00 – 5:00 pm

VIP & Member Day (by invitation):
Thursday, September 7, 2023
11:00 am – 5:00 pm

For more information about how to get to Governors Island, see here.

Cornelius Tulloch Inquiries
To inquire about pricing or purchase works by Cornelius Tulloch presented at NADA House or at CUE’s gallery space, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org. The artist is also available for original commissions, including site-specific work.

Artwork Preview Images

Installation Images

Opening Reception Images

About CUE Art Foundation
CUE Art Foundation is a nonprofit organization that works with and for emerging and underrecognized artists and art workers to create new opportunities and present varied perspectives in the arts. Through our gallery space and public programs, we foster the development of thought-provoking exhibitions and events, create avenues for mentorship, cultivate relationships amongst peers and the public, and facilitate the exchange of ideas.