Andina Marie Osorio, you're just a bee charmer

​SINCLAIR is pleased to present our second exhibition, Andina Marie Osorio “you’re just a bee charmer” opening on Saturday, May 30 from 3-6 PM.

​The exhibition presents a new film and unique photographs, weaving together Osorio’s long-standing interest in matriarchal societies, domestic spaces as evidence of labor, and her role as steward of her family’s photographic archive. Drawing parallels between her upbringing in a predominantly female household and the matriarchal structure of honeybee colonies, Osorio developed this new body of work in collaboration with hives in New Haven, CT.

​In honeybee colonies, all-female worker bees maintain the hive through constant labor, performing tasks such as cleaning, nursing, and defense. When strengthening units or introducing new queens, beekeepers typically use newsprint as a temporary barrier to slowly mingle pheromones and prevent conflict. Osorio subverts this practice by introducing archival family photographs, five intimate snapshots of family gatherings and three formal studio portraits, as the barrier. As the bees tear through the images, they create new forms that are a delicate combination of precious nostalgia and physical erasure.

​In the artist’s distinctive partnership with the hive, she challenges the archivists’ intrinsic role of preservationist and keeper of the past by presenting a dynamic and alive relationship to the image through which a matriarchal society in the present is transformed.

​“you’re just a bee charmer" will be on view until Saturday July 11.

​Image caption: Andina Marie Osorio, “Untitled (madrina)”, 2026, Archival Pigment Print, 14 in. x 11 in. (Print) 17 in. x 14 in. x 1.5 in. (Framed), Unique Item

​Andina Marie Osorio is an Afro-Caribbean artist from the Bronx, currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Osorio’s practice explores the intersections of memory, identity, queer affect, migration, and Black femme sexual politics through assemblage, self portraiture and archival work centered on the familial and queer experience.