September 23 - November 5, 2022
From DiverseWorks:
“DiverseWorks is pleased to announce the presentation of Sites of Memory, an exhibition featuring newly commissioned and recent works by San Antonio-based artist Jenelle Esparza and Houston-based artist Verónica Gaona. Sites of Memory is a two-person exhibition that explores the impermanent nature of land and its residual energy through the use of objects, natural materials, and living and historical research. Sites of Memory expands on each artist’s use of source material, geological sites, and the culture of place to reflect on ideas about how we occupy land. Their works address issues of settler colonialism, migration, and personal and collective liberation, while attempting to come to terms with what it means to be in conversation with land through a decolonized, ancestral, or embodied practice.
The exhibition will feature several woven fiber tapestries, prints, and an installation by Esparza who uses raw and natural cotton fibers as a material that connects her to land and as a way to share the interconnected identities that are tied to it. Gaona will present a series of mixed media installations, wall relief prints, and sculptures made out of salvaged Ford F150 truck parts, polarized glass, rebar, and family archives as a way to materialize such characteristics of diaspora as opacity, transnationality, and impermanence to redress traditional approaches to memorialization and subvert structures of power.
For more details about the exhibition and related events please visit our website.”
Reception: September 23, 2022 | 6–8 pm
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston
3400 Main St.
Houston, 77002 Texas
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