NeNe Time by Dane Nakama

“NeNe time” is an exhibition of new works by Dane Nakama that explores the overlap between ancestral and spiritual hauntings. Like a dream of nonsensical correlations between familial bedtime stories and urban legends - viewers are encouraged to ask themselves: How do we decide which stories or traditions survive? And which return as haunting familiarities in our dreams?

Dane Nakama is a Japanese-Uchinanchu multidisciplinary artist from and currently based in Oahu, Hawai’i. Through a nostalgic and whimsical style, Nakama often addresses subjects of cultural hybridity, settler colonialism, and indigenous hauntology. Receiving a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Nakama has also exhibited their work in Los Angeles, Miami, and Tokyo.