Nadia Granados, Colombianización. Courtesy of the artist.
Image description: A nude figure poses sideways, naked from the waist down, holding a knife between their legs, their finger touching the tip of the knife evocatively. They wear a yellow soccer jersey, pulled up to their waist. Their head is not visible and they are on a blue backdrop.
We're pleased to announce the opening of INDECENCIA.
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INDECENCIA brings together a cohort of queer/rare* artists from Latin America and/or of Latin American descent and living in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean or in-between spaces/identities, whose praxes center on performance art and ephemeral actions. From the perspective of several generations, countries, and sociopolitical contexts, these artists invite us to consider Latinidad/Latinxidad and its relationship to religion, enfleshment, and sexuality. Their inquiries extend—through videos, props, scripts, costumes, and other channels—to the disjointed corpus of an entire hemisphere where, for many, the colonized and the colonizer can easily wrestle within a single body.
* “Raro” is the curator’s translation of “queer” in Spanish. “Raro” means strange, weird, or unusual.
INDECENCIA has already been named as a must-see exhibition in Hyperallergic's Fall Art Guide!
Participating artists: Luis A., Arantxa Araujo, Arthur Avilés, Nao Bustamante, Susana Cook, Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Marga Gomez, Félix González Torres, Nadia Granados (La Fulminante), Noelia Quintero and Rita Indiana, Carlos Martiel, Carlos Leppe, Elizabeth “MACHA” Marrero, Ivan Monforte, Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, Charles Rice-González, Jesusa Rodríguez and Liliana Felipe, Carmelita Tropicana & Uzi Parnes & Ela Troyano, and Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis.
Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles
Please join Leslie-Lohman, INDECENCIA curator Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, and exhibition artists for an opening celebration September 15th from 6-8pm.
Fotograma de Carmelita Tropicana Your Kunst Is Your Waffen (Tu arte es tu arma) 1994. Una película de Ela Troyano protagonizada por Carmelita Tropicana. Crédito de la foto: Paula Court.
Description de imagen: Un grupo de cuatro mujeres levantan los puños y cantan desde el interior de una celda de prisión. La imagen es en blanco y negro
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INDECENCIA reúne a una cohorte de artistas rares* de América Latina y/o de ascendencia latinoamericana que viven en los Estados Unidos, Europa y el Caribe o en espacios/identidades intermedias, cuya praxis se concentra en el arte performativo y las acciones efímeras. Desde la perspectiva de varias generaciones, países y contextos sociopolíticos, estes artistas nos invitan a considerar la latinidad/latinxidad y su relación con la religión, la encarnación y la sexualidad. Sus cuestionamientos, mediante el uso de videos, utilería, guiones, vestuario y otros canales, abarcan el cuerpo desarticulado de todo un hemisferio donde, para muches, es perfectamente posible que la lucha entre colonizade y colonizadora/or/re ocurra en un mismo cuerpo.
* “Rare” es la traducción al castellano que hace el curador de “queer”.
Artistas Participantes: Luis A., Arantxa Araujo, Arthur Avilés, Nao Bustamante, Susana Cook, Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Marga Gomez, Félix González Torres, Nadia Granados (La Fulminante), Noelia Quintero and Rita Indiana, Carlos Martiel, Carlos Leppe, Elizabeth “MACHA” Marrero, Ivan Monforte, Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, Charles Rice-González, Jesusa Rodríguez and Liliana Felipe, Carmelita Tropicana & Uzi Parnes & Ela Troyano, and Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis.
Curado por Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles
Únase con Leslie-Lohman, el curador de Indecencia, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Raful Espejo Ovalles, y los artistas de la exposición para una apertura pública el 15 de septiembre de 6 a 8 p.m.
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