“Posibles escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN” curated by Danielle A. Jackson might be on view from September 16 to December 3, 2022, at Artists House (11 Cortlandt Alley, New York). Artists House presents the primary solo exhibition of Las Nietas de Nonó, the Puerto Rico based mostly afro-diasporic siblings, mulowayi and mapenzi nonó. “Weaving collectively efficiency, reusable and located objects, natural supplies, ecology, fiction, video, and set up, this main exhibition will foreground the artist’s totally imaginative approaches to advocacy and liberation.”
Description: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN is a brand new a collection of multimedia works that can prolong Las Nietas’s explorations of themes such because the medical industrial complicated, processes of expropriation and colonial violence towards Black communities, and the event of microhistories in relation to geopolitics. All through Artists House’s floor ground, a collection of interconnected visceral, summary, biomorphic mixed-media installations—the biggest of which might be an enormous biodegradable set up entitled Sala Portal Omi. Made from SCOBY (symbiotic tradition of micro organism and yeast)—the fermentation discs that develop through the manufacturing of kombucha—the set up creates what the artist calls “a restorative place for therapeutic.” Believing that performative manifestations are automobiles to unveil silenced histories, it’ll double as a stage for a brand new theatrical efficiency premiering October 27-30.
The polymorphous exhibition additional unfolds throughout a collection of landscapes populated by natural matter, residing organisms, and experimental sound. Using scene shifting—a theatrical approach used to point a change of locale—Las Nietas approaches the exhibition very similar to an album tracklist, biking by way of natural supplies and the sound of speedy beats, rhythmic rap songs, and pure melodies to archive nature’s vibrations within the midst of displacement attributable to the legacy of colonialism and the present local weather disaster. They may debut a brand new movie, FOODTOPIA: en el suelo áspero, set in Rome that displays on Las Nietas’s experiences of land and diaspora. The exhibition might be learn as a set of discursive platforms that replicate on problems with ecology, land, meals autonomy, and to strategize about modes of survival and restoration.
Las Nietas de Nonó will carry out inside the exhibition on the next dates:
Thursday, October 27, at 7pm
Saturday, October 29, at 1pm
Sunday, October 30, at 7pm
[Image above: Las Nietas de Nonó’s “FOODTOPIA: después de todo territorio,” 2020-21. Two figures sit facing each other, with a large piece of sheet metal held on their laps between them. Each is blindfolded, and the background is filled with trees and vegetation.]
For extra info, see https://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/las-nietas-de-nono