Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca (b. 1980, Chicago, IL) creates work that destabilizes the male gaze while exploring femme and indigenous, specifically Andean, narratives and mark-making. Huanca’s installations encompass painting, sculpture, and live performance, and are characteristically created for, and integrated with, the specific architectural spaces in which they are presented. Her art is deeply invested in ritual practice, both drawn from Andean culture and exploring ritual at large as a means for transcendence, meditation, and transformation.
For her commissioned exhibition at the Henry, the artist will create an architecturally immersive environment, consisting of a vast stage of interlocking ovoid/cellular forms, landscaped with white sand and supporting twelve mirrored “screen” sculptures, along with a selection of other sculptural work. Four mural-size paintings surround the stage, each representing one of the four seasons. As viewers journey through the space, they are invited to experience a kaleidoscopic engagement with their own reflection and the...works, as well as sound and olfactory pieces. A complete sensory experience, the installation aims to evoke a slippage of space and time inviting participants to both find and lose themselves. Throughout the length of the exhibition, the Henry, the artist, and cultural performers of all genres will work together to produce a series of programs in dialogue with the exhibition’s themes.
Huanca’s exhibition will be the first commissioned work supported by the Richard E. and Jane Lang Davis New Works Fund.
Entrada actualizada el el 10 feb de 2022
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