Brooklyn Art Exhibit Offers Healing Amid '18 Months Of Grief'

BROOKLYN, NY — An interactive art exhibit at Green-Wood Cemetery will offer Brooklynites a moment to reflect and heal from loss felt throughout the last year.

The "After the End" art installation, set up in the cemetery's historic chapel, will invite visitors to anonymously share their personal losses, allowing them to be turned into a devotional candle or projected onto the chapel walls.

The exhibit, created by artists Candy Chang and James A. Reeves, is aimed at creating a moment of healing for loss of all forms, including loss of loved ones, relationships, health, and worlds we once knew, according to a release.

“Following eighteen months of anxiety, grief, and uncertainty, After the End opens at a significant moment as our City begins to heal,"said Green-Wood Director of Public Programs Harry Weil, who curated the installation. "All New Yorkers have experienced some form of loss, but there aren’t spaces to publicly share that anguish. This installation provides an opportunity to reflect, to learn, and to engage with one another.”

The installation will launch this Wednesday and will be on view until Nov. 10.

Between 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. each day, visitors are invited to anonymously share their experience on a scroll and place it on an illuminated altar, turning it into a devotional candle.

"Select responses will be projected throughout the chapel, and visitors can sit in the apse to contemplate the experiences of others as well as their own," organizer said.

A free, public talk about the installation with the artists is planned for Sept. 30.

Here's everything you need to know:

WHEN: Open daily between 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from Sept. 15 to Nov. 10. The artists also will host a free, public talk about the installation on Thursday, Sept. 30, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

WHERE: Green-Wood 25th Street at Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn: walk 5 minutes from the Main Entrance Arch to the Historic Chapel. Take the “R” train to 25th Street in Brooklyn and walk up the hill one block and into the Cemetery. Free parking is also available.

HOW: Entry is free, though please consider a donation to The Green-Wood Historic Fund.No reservations are necessary. "After the End" is made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.