Subversive Kin: The Act of Turning Over

2021, Abrazo Interno Gallery at The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY

Curated by Elisa Gutierrez Eriksen
Artists: Bel Falleiros, Christine Howard Sandoval, and Karen Rivadeniera Miranda
Photographs by JC Cancedda

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Subversive Kin brings together a group of female-identified artists whose practice stems from their embedded relation to land and to original practices and traditions from their places of birth or ancestry. Spanning video, photography, poetry, installation, and painting, the works of these artists suggest the need to reconsider the place of human beings in the world and proposes a repositioning where nature and humans have agency and enact a shared subjectivity.

As artists, poets, women, we set the space to think in terms of reciprocity, establishing relationships instead of ownerships, and reminding that our relationships are transformed by our choice of perspective.

The process for this exhibition has been one full of conversations rooted in care, support, and sisterhood. I’m extremely grateful for having the opportunity to listen, think and create with these women that I admire so much.

Estranguladora, 2021

Latex print on cotton canvas, hand-painted with acrylic, 18 x 5 feet

Estranguladora, 2021

Latex print on cotton canvas, hand-painted with acrylic, 18 x 5 feet

Entrelazándome con el territorio, 2021

Polaroids, clay, paper, ambil, rocks, and pressed plants

Entrelazándome con el territorio, 2021

Polaroids, clay, paper, ambil, rocks, and pressed plants