February 6 - 22, 2020
The idea of “Comisuras (Commissures)” came to artist Flor Ameria and Bárbara Miñarro naturally. In Spanish, “Comisuras (Commissures)” is defined as the point where borders from an organism meet. This inspired the artists to create a playful narrative of their friendship. Their exhibition creates a visual language through photographs, sculptures, and textiles to create a collage of their bilingualism, biculturalism, and bi-nationality where their kindship meets.
Exploring the constant embrace and rejection of her relationship with her surroundings, Flor Ameira has used physical distortions and restrictions of the body that reference conflicted internal feelings, which result in an inability to recognize the woman behind the fabric.
Her latest body of work encompasses a tribute to her childhood and her present; old home and new home. By mixing items bought, found and grown in her hometown, including items like paper, beeswax, and flowers, she activates elements of memory and nostalgia which plays an important role in Ameria’s work.
Bárbara Miñarro deals with a body in migration. The departure from her home in Mexico to the United States has shaped the way she navigates and adapts to new surroundings. Through the use of fabric, she abstracts the way my culture, language, and body conform to these environments through practices of displacement, tension, confinement, and repetition.
Miñarro works with textiles and fabrics that are personal to her. Her grandmother’s bedsheets, her mother’s clothing, her own garments, and additional collected materials act as signifiers of identity that she brought with her from my homeland. In recent projects, she has incorporated clothing from other women important to her today, resulting in a tapestry of fabrics from both nations, both homes, and both lives, all of which becomes personified into one work. She reclaims these objects that once epitomized nostalgic memories into distorted limb-like forms. This process of transformation blurs the perimeter of characteristics that identify her. In extracting these objects from their native environment and adapting them to their new surroundings they come to symbolize my immigrant experience. As the context of my materials is changed by their placement in a new location, they explore the idea that environments can affect identities, dictate relationships, and change the way that bodies navigate through familial spaces and abstract borders.
Opening: February 6, 2020 | 6–9 pm
136 Blue Star St.
San Antonio, 78204 TX
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