Gulf Coast Art Corridor with labotanica present la lengua muerta
Opening reception: Friday, April
9, 2010,
6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: April 9 – May
15, 2010
labotanica
is open to the public saturday, 1-5pm
labotanica presents La Lengua Muerta (The
Dead Tongue) an exhibition of new works driven by private conversations
about deciphering how Latin we still are. A group of uprooted and
acclimating emerging artists are both subversively and romantically
embracing classification as a point of departure to investigate their
historical and current geography.
A
panel of established artists, curators and critics: Elia Arce,
Margarita Cabrera, Aisen Chacin, Delilah Montoya, Ruben Cordova and
Surpik Angelini, will participate in dialogue at labotanica, offering
the artists their Latin Label experience. At the core of these
dialogues lays the need to move beyond traditional categories of “Latin
American Art” and to frame new definitions, visual languages and
creative practices among these artists in Houston.
La Lengua Muerta
will yield visual and performance works to be as diverse (in form,
subject, aesthetics, and influences) as being Latin American.
Participating
artists include: Daniel Adame, Chuy Benitez, Aisen Caro Chacin, Claudia
Cruz, Sebastian Forray, Jonathan Lopez, Angel Quesada, Cheyanne Ramos,
Stephanie Saint Sanchez, and Alex Soares.
La Lengua Muerta is a Gulf Coast Art Corridor project curated by Aisen Caro Chacin
La Lengua Muerta is a Gulf Coast Art Corridor
project conceived and commissioned by Elia Arce, and supported by an
Arts and Activism Exchange grant. Arce is currently an
Artist-In-Residence at DiverseWorks supported by a New Voices Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Initiative.
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