EventsThe New Social Environment#1277

Cassi Namoda: Night Always Returns

Featuring Namoda and Gaby Collins-Fernandez

Thursday, October 23, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Cassi Namoda joins Brooklyn Rail contributor Gaby Collins-Fernandez for a conversation on Zoom.

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Visit Night Always Returns on view at 303 Gallery, New York through October 25, 2025 →

Cassi Namoda

A photo of Cassi Namoda on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Photo by Andres Altamirano 

Cassi Namoda (b. 1988, Maputo, Mozambique) is a painter, performance artist, and storyteller whose work explores the complexities of everyday life in post-colonial Africa. Known for her vibrant figurative paintings, she weaves together personal memories, folklore, and cultural history to reflect on themes of identity, community, and spirituality. Namoda’s practice often captures fleeting moments of tenderness and resilience, rendered with an expressive palette and cinematic sensibility. She has exhibited internationally, with shows in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Cape Town, and her work is included in major institutional collections. Namoda lives and works in Biella Italy. 

Gaby Collins-Fernandez

A photo of Gaby Collins-Fernandez on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo by Michael Marcelle
Gaby Collins-Fernandez is an artist living and working in New York City. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA) and the Yale School of Art (MFA, Painting/Printmaking). Her work has been shown in the US and internationally, including at Peter Freeman, Inc., the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama and El Museo del Barrio, NY. Her work has been discussed in publications such as the Brooklyn Rail and artcritical, and on the video interview series, Gorky’s Granddaughter. She is a recipient of residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Marble House Project (Dorset, VT), and a 2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Art Award. She is a founder and publisher of the annual magazine Precog, and a co-director of the artist-run art and music initiative BombPop!Up.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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