The Taste of Mango

  • A collage of super-imposed images of the same person with long, curly locks, a gorgeous smile, wearing a garland of flowers

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Co-presented by:
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
3rdi Film Film Festival
AmDoc/POV

Introduced by Naz Cuguoğlu – Curator: Asian Art Museum

The Taste of Mango is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love. At its center are three extraordinary women: the director’s mother, Rozana; her grandmother, Jean; and the director herself, Chloe Abrahams. Their stories are difficult and jubilant, testifying to the entangled and ever-changing nature of inheritance and the ways in which we both hurt and protect the ones we hold dear.

Content advisory: This film contains stories processing sexual assault and domestic violence

About Naz Cuguoğlu

Naz Cuguoğlu works as a curator of contemporary art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, where her work explores themes of intersectional identities and diasporic experiences. In 2024, she was appointed to co-curate the inaugural American Pavilion at the 15th Gwangju Biennale and received the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Curatorial Research Fellowship Grant and the AAMC Propel Award. Her curatorial experience includes exhibitions and programs at documenta fifteen, 15th Istanbul Biennial, Taiwan Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. She has previously held roles at institutions such as KADIST, The Wattis Institute, de Young Museum, and SFMOMA. Her writings have appeared in Art Asia Pacific, Hyperallergic, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. As a co-founder of Collective Çukurcuma, she experiments with collaborative curatorial practices through reading groups and international exhibitions

Runtime
1h 18m
Year
2023
Director
Chloe Abrahams
Format
DCP
Country
United Kingdom
First Showing
February 4, 2025
Categories
  • Assisted Listening