Recuento de mis 15

Formatted as a traditional Latina/x quince años, a coming-of-age ceremony, this piece consists of an exhaustive audio-visual presentation performed collaboratively by an artist, a curator, a gallery coordinator, a flower person, a theramin player, a waiter and group of invited guests.

For this occasion, the gallery space is furnished with a portable projection screen and a lectern where the curator, dressed in black, reviews the development of the debutant’s career. Recuento de mis 15 looks at professional roles and questions the established art world’s (Art Industry’s) methods of validating an artist’s work. Those present are invited to delve simultaneously into the private and the public, the institutional and the personal, and into what might be real and what is being staged. Guests at this event get an inside look at Estévez’s upbringing as well as his education, exhibitions, awards, residencies and rejection letters through a presentation that includes detailed projections of his then five-page resume.

Semi-formal attire was suggested.

Theramin player: Micahel Evans / Flower person: Lina Beltré / Curator: Edwin Ramoran / Special thanks to Carl Eckhoff

Presented at Bronx River Art Center (BRAC)