Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters

July 22 – August 17, 2022
About the Show Audio Guides Installation Views Show Materials Credits and Acknowledgements

 

Human in a head-to-toe bodysuit, reclining on their side in front on the beach with waves crashing behind them.
Joiri Minaya, Container #6, 2020. Photo still from performance. 60 x 40 inches. Image Provided by the artist. Social Media: @joiriminaya
Farah Al Qasimi | Beatriz Cortez | micha cárdenas | Tessa Grundon
Joiri Minaya | Ada M. Patterson | Himali Singh Soin
Himali Singh Soin and Alexis Rider

Historically, colonial enterprises have violently linked land- and water-scapes with the bodies of women and femmes, queer people, and people of color in order to dehumanize them. By becoming dirt and water, such bodies have been equated with “natural” resources, made vulnerable to exploitation, extraction, and land theft justified along lines of race, gender, and sexuality. Yet such linkages, particularly in recent years, have been meaningfully appropriated by artists as acts of resistance that articulate new futures and magnify marginalized histories. Presenting the work of Farah Al Qasimi, Beatriz Cortez, micha cárdenas, Tessa Grundon, Joiri Minaya, Ada M. Patterson, Himali Singh Soin, and Alexis Rider, Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters engages with complex questions around impermanence, belonging, transformation, and erasure as they relate to human (and non-human) lives and the earth itself.

Read the complete Curatorial Statement here.