Through an experimental and transdisciplinary methodology, Mexican artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo (b. 1979) creates performances, films, and video installations that interweave multiple fields of study, including Mesoamerican cosmologies, queer theory, critical pedagogy, and Latin American decolonial feminism. Understanding time as a spiral in which past, present, and future intersect and inform one another, Rincón Gallardo turns to the knowledge embedded in pre-colonial myths to find her anti-colonial poetic weapons.
In her practice, Rincón Gallardo combines speculative fiction, theater games, different styles of popular music, and D.I.Y. costumes to build what she terms “counterworlds.” With these mesmerizing visions of a “mythical-critical surrealism,” the artist offers alternatives to hegemonic ways of understanding reality. To stage these insurgent visions, Rincón Gallardo collaborates with groups of women and cuir/queer and non-binary individuals, creating opportunities to collectively escape normativity. Praising the power of pleasure and creativity over patriarchal oppression, Rincón Gallardo’s works inspire an insubordinate and...nonconformist imaginary. Combining ancestral narratives, recent history, and queer futurity in deeply political ways, Rincón Gallardo creates new myths capable of motivating better forms of living together.
“Screens Series: Naomi Rincón Gallardo” presents her film The Formaldehyde Trip (2017) displayed on three monitors simultaneously. Gallardo will stage a performative screening at the New Museum on October 6 at 7:30 p.m.
“Screens Series: Naomi Rincón Gallardo” is curated by Bernardo Mosqueira, ISLAA Curatorial Fellow.
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