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Quimeras is an installation art piece by interdisciplinary artist Brenda Torres-Figueroa that emcompasses a series of archeological mirrors despicting the journey of two cimarrones as they follow their path to freedom and belonging. This artwork was created by the support of the Tiznando el Pais initiative, coordinated by Alianza de Museos de Puerto Rico and funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Es fascinante la propuesta visual de Brenda Torres-Figueroa. Las miradas desde el interior de las llegadas de nuestres ancestres, por ello los espejos nos acogen a la entrada de la sala. En los espejos miramos a les ancestres que dialogan con el/la que se mira. Aquelles que llegaron forzades re existen con la fuerza del mar y repican la sonoridad del azote de las olas al llegar a la orilla. Es maravilloso el trabajo circular de la vida.
-Dr. Marielba Torres-Muñoz
Quimeras will be On view until September 20th, 2024.
Open Saturdays 11am to 2pm and 3pm to 6pm
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A White Noise: Reordering Chaos
On March 8th, 2024, El Schomburg | Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo opened a new exhibit titled A White Noise: Reordering Chaos. This curatorial proposal reunites 11 Puerto Rican artists living in Chicago and Puerto Rico. The collection presented at El Schomburg became an invitation to reimagine the given, assimilated, and resisted intersectionalities between invisible/visible, silence, grief, memory, climate change, home/nature, resistance, and spiritualities experienced through personal and collective narratives.
At a glance, all pieces share “whiteness” as both a metaphor and point of departure/exchange for overdue conversations around the construction of womanhood in Puerto Rican culture. From internalized misogyny to the generational trauma embodied in ideas of purity, decency, and power. To layering concepts of racial identity, body, and spiritual sovereignty. To a deeper discussion of mental health and ancestral and native healing practices.
Each piece provides a new opportunity to contextualize the above by framing what profoundly belongs to each artist unaltered: beyond the material, the expected, and the visible.
A White Noise: Reordering Chaos will be at El Schomburg until April 20th, 2024. The gallery opens on Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm and Monday through Friday by appointment. For more information and updates, visit our Instagram @elschomburg or our website www.elschomburg.com
Featured Artists:
Anais Caro
Bibiana Suárez
Brenda Lee Hernández
Brenda Torres-Figueroa
Christine Abigail Meinders
Iliamarie Vázquez
Mara Ayala
Naia Wakai-Torres
Norah Hernández
Sandra Antongiorgi
Sonia Baez-Hernández
Yolanda Velazquez
Art Gallery Space
Deyaneira Lucero, Machuca 1.
2022. Photography/Media
Art Production Studio
Juan Pablo Vizcaino | Cangrejo Arriba
2023. Mix Media
Art Education Lab
Brenda Torres-Figueroa, Refuge
2000-2003 Interdisciplinary Arts/Media
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