Resonance of Things Unseen: Indigenous Sovereignty, Institutional Accession, and Private Correspondence
Yale Peabody Museum
May 9, 2024
At Odds With
Whitney ISP Westbeth Exhibition
Emily Velez Nelms is interested in an array of methods and mediums, including installation, film, sound, and architectural processes. Her work is invested in phenomenology, interiority and intuition, and the ways that social structures affect spatial reality. She avoids disciplinary bounds.
As a Masters of Environmental Design Candidate at the Yale School of Architecture, she is concerned with the impact of cultural tourism on the development of her home, southern Florida. Velez Nelms is a current Whitney ISP Studio Fellow and the current graduate coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America. She holds an MFA from UCLA.