[ Lucky (Garden) ]
Installation, 2017 - Current.
Almost seven years ago I would leave the clinic with four bottles for two months of treatment whose main promise was the abstraction that “everything was going to be all right” ~ Soon the accumulation of bottles and boxes of antiretroviral treatment became a case: HIV-positive people become very attached to them. We thought that from looking at them so much, the future would appear in their contents for the taking. One day I simply planted clovers for them that I plucked from the sidewalk and put them next to my bed on a plate. Over this time they have moved places, died and been reborn, even turned into art and then kept themselves as a small garden. I have never been particularly good with plants so I began to grow fond of these clovers because of their resistance to my doubts, as they guided me through non-verbal chatter when I watered them.
Learning has been the result of patient exchange. Knowledge, then, is also given by the reciprocity of love. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson says about this: “It makes sense because that is where our ancestors reside, where spirit beings exist and where the living spirits of plants, animals and humans interact. To access this knowledge, one has to align oneself with (and within) the forces of the order involved, through ceremony, ritual, and the agreement of the teachings one already brings.”
Installation, 2017 - Current.
Almost seven years ago I would leave the clinic with four bottles for two months of treatment whose main promise was the abstraction that “everything was going to be all right” ~ Soon the accumulation of bottles and boxes of antiretroviral treatment became a case: HIV-positive people become very attached to them. We thought that from looking at them so much, the future would appear in their contents for the taking. One day I simply planted clovers for them that I plucked from the sidewalk and put them next to my bed on a plate. Over this time they have moved places, died and been reborn, even turned into art and then kept themselves as a small garden. I have never been particularly good with plants so I began to grow fond of these clovers because of their resistance to my doubts, as they guided me through non-verbal chatter when I watered them.
Learning has been the result of patient exchange. Knowledge, then, is also given by the reciprocity of love. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson says about this: “It makes sense because that is where our ancestors reside, where spirit beings exist and where the living spirits of plants, animals and humans interact. To access this knowledge, one has to align oneself with (and within) the forces of the order involved, through ceremony, ritual, and the agreement of the teachings one already brings.”
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BIENAL DE SALUD VIRTUAL
Obras de Arte Comentadas, Mexico City.
From March 26 to 29, 2020.
Obras de Arte Comentadas, Mexico City.
From March 26 to 29, 2020.
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Full article: [ Here ]
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SOFT DICK MOMENTS
Salón Silicón Gallery, Mexico City.
From August 24 to 31, 2019.
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"Here's a room full of men. Some queers, some straight, some who have played between the two. Each work is a delicate extension of his body. On the whole, it seems to be the same as always, another phallocentric exhibition, men who equate everything, can everything, narrate everything, want everything. However, this exhibition focuses on the lethargy of the erotic tension between materials to stimulate a poetic sensitivity that allows us to recognize how, among men, we affect each other through our presence. In other words, how a man participates in the masculine without collapsing because he is fragile".
Text and Curatorship by: Diego del Valle Ríos.
Salón Silicón Gallery, Mexico City.
From August 24 to 31, 2019.
A🔥🔥🔥
"Here's a room full of men. Some queers, some straight, some who have played between the two. Each work is a delicate extension of his body. On the whole, it seems to be the same as always, another phallocentric exhibition, men who equate everything, can everything, narrate everything, want everything. However, this exhibition focuses on the lethargy of the erotic tension between materials to stimulate a poetic sensitivity that allows us to recognize how, among men, we affect each other through our presence. In other words, how a man participates in the masculine without collapsing because he is fragile".
Text and Curatorship by: Diego del Valle Ríos.
Full article [ Here ]