Presentiments

From Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts:

“Including work by 15 artists from Latin(x) America, Presentiments takes the weather as a starting point to ask questions about how we inhabit the world and how we make sense of our landscapes: national, geographic, and emotional. This exhibition is co-curated by artist Adán Vallecillo and curator Laura Augusta, PhD, and it began as a conversation about influence. How do artists influence one another and how do they develop extended conversations over years? In contrast to legacies of “importance” and heroism, Presentiments approaches the weather as a way of gauging relationships. Colloquially, the phrase “how’s the weather” is a common way of opening conversation; it also can be a way of asking about affective relationships between people. Stormy weather, for example, might signal an interpersonal conflict; conversely, someone might be described as having a sunny personality. Even the act of co-curating an exhibition signals the political stakes of relationships: this exhibition is made in collaboration and in conversation, in resistance to models of artistic and curatorial individualism. ”