DOS CUERPOS <BETWEEN CYBORG AND SPIRIT>
Curated by Daniel Arturo Almeida
May 11 - June 8, 2024
Laundromat Art Space
185 NE 59 street, Miami FL 33137
Opening Reception:
May 11
Performance activations with special guests
May 30, 6-9:30PM
Closing Reception
June 8, 6-9:30PM
Roxana Barba’s solo exhibition derives from two bodies of work, encoding Andean cosmology and cyborgian desire, resulting in body-responsive installations, video-performance, and photo collage. For Barba, this desire is “a yearning to become a hybrid being capable of mending imbalances between species to build networks of equilibrium.”
Informed by eight years of experience choreographing and directing multimedia stage performances, ‘Dos Cuerpos’ draws from her latest pieces: ‘Apuntes Americanos-Kanay’ (2022-2023), awarded a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge, and ‘In my center a Cyborg Seed’ (to be premiered in 2024), awarded a 2022 Knight New Work and a NALAC Fund for the Arts grant.
In the exhibition, bodies covered in mud, germinating rituals, and illustrations of the ancestreal Pallar Moche legume are composed into grids referencing Paracas’ burial textiles depicting interspecies iconography. A modular spider platform nests Barba’s body, serpentining to the rhythm of a weaving loom. Gleaming chakanas project the plundering of sacred Huacas to resurface a world of ancestral wisdom, delinked from its place of origin.
Special thanks to Laundromat Art Space, Lili(ana), Rodrigo Arcaya, Lorenzo Bordonaro, David Correa, Marco Herrera, Freddy Jouyayed, Andrés Ibarra, Claudio Marcotulli, Pablo Matute, Rafael Nuñez, Julia Zurilla, James L. Knight Foundation, National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (NALAC), US Latinx Art Forum and Correlación Contemporaea.