Hold Me Tender

The Arrived Creative Collective is the fiscal sponsor of Hold Me Tender, a multimedia exhibition created by Sheilby Macena and Simrah Farrukh.

Photographers Sheilby Macena (left), a Haitian-American artist, and Simrah Farrukh (right), an American-Pakistani artist, are coming together to bring Hold Me Tender to life: a multimedia exhibition rooted in love, vulnerability, softness, and strength carried within our communities.

Born from two distinct cultural perspectives, this project creates space for images and stories that are too often pushed to the margins. Through their work, Macena and Farrukh explore what tenderness can look like across identity, memory, family, belonging, and hope.

Hold Me Tender explores diaspora, third-culture identity, womanhood, love, softness, and cultural memory. Through portraiture, moving image, archival references, literature, personal objects, and interior space, the exhibition creates a living archive that centers the beauty and complexity of Black, Caribbean, African, South Asian, and immigrant experiences.

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