Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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Videos
Letters to Home, Pt. 1
2021In “Letters to Home, Pt. 1”, two short films are projected onto a tiny house in-between construction and collapse. The main film is projected onto the back wall of the home’s interior, which visually references the church of Solentiname, Nicaragua––a historic utopian site pivotal to the country’s revolutionary movement. The film unfolds as “letters” to family in Louisiana. Both intimate and socially conscious, the letters regard familial love, migration, security, addiction, loss and grief, and The American Dream. The exterior features a silent loop of the artist’s mother cooking a traditional Nicaraguan dish. // Mixed media; Interior video, audio, 20m; exterior video 4m 35s; 216 x 120 x 132 in
Added on: August 23, 2022
Skylight (Tragarás Luz)
2022Window & video projection 32 x 29 x 38 inches; 1m 45s
Added on: August 23, 2022
Waiting Room
2020“Waiting Room” is an elegy of sorts––a reflection on my father's sudden passing, and its timing just preceding our shared reality of mass mourning. It's an attempt to render personal loss into something transcendent In the waiting room, a door frame is a body/ is a screen / is a headstone. In the threshold, my father shares an anecdote about survival, and elusive images demand repetition. A blue voice welcomes you, beckons you to share in it. // Wood, fabric, astro turf, video, audio, 14m, 52s; dimensions variable
Added on: August 23, 2022
Father Tongue
20202 ch. video, audio, 3m 35s; Father and son each reading in their secondary language, stumbling––on the emergence of language gaps between generations and slippages of translation. And beyond language? Text from Cien Años de Soledad / One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
Added on: August 23, 2022
quaran+ime
2020A riff on Francis Alÿs’ “Paradox of Praxis 1: Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing” (1997), adapted to a context of isolation in the epicenter of the pandemic, in April of 2020. I kicked a block of ice around my tiny Brooklyn apartment, all alone. On futility and mapping space, disorientations of time as perceived in relation to passing time, and to passing––grief is not abstract, but physical and spatiotemporal––and what happens when you cut it up to be more like cinema? Something about sculpting time. // Video, audio, 29m 41s
Added on: August 23, 2022
Es un Buen Tipo
2020Video, audio, 8m 20s
Added on: August 23, 2022
Portals
2019Wood, window blinds, CRTV, couch, silent-loop projection, 3-channel video/projection with audio, 6m 25s Dimensions variable / center film 97 x 184 x 100 in
Added on: August 23, 2022
Vase
2019Medicine Cabinet, Spoon, Video, Audio, 2m 53s; 46 x 36 inches
Added on: August 23, 2022
Oración de la Casita
2019Oración de la Casita is structured like a poem. Bilingual text underscores collaged visuals, intentionally without translation, drawing links between memory and language in the formation of subjectivity. Credit: at 1:39m a passage of text is pulled from Diana's Tree by Alejandra Pizarnik and translated by Yvette Siegert // Mixed media, video projection, audio, 3m 42s 80 x 82 x 34 in.
Added on: August 23, 2022
HOME NOT HOME
2019Mixed media, video projection, audio, 11m 20s 30 x 55 inches
Added on: August 23, 2022