Cypress College Art Gallery SUR:Biennial 2023
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Control Ground
Curated By Stephanie Sabo
On View October 5 - November 22, 2023
Opening Reception: October 5 2023. 6pm – 8pm
Participating Artists:
Eva Aguila
Maria Thereza Alves
Carolina Aranibar-Fernández
Jackie Castillo
Minerva Cuevas
Maria Laura Hendrix
Minga Opazo
Mayela Rodriguez
Christina Villamor
Speaker Series:
Carolina Aranibar- Fernandez Monday, October 16, Noon – 1:30 pm, ZOOM
Jackie Castillo Wednesday, October 25, 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Mayela Rodriguez Wednesday, October 25, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Minga Opazo: Wednesday, Tuesday, November 7th, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Eva Aguila: Thursday, November 9, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Ground Control brings together an international roster of 9 artists whose work is
driven by a research-intensive critique of the transmutation of the natural world
into capital. Providing an important survey of intergenerational Latina voices, the
collection of photography, installation, sculpture, video, painting, and printed material
on view revisits Eduardo Galeano’s seminal text Open Veins of Latin America. Fiftyyears
ago, this book shifted the dialogue surrounding the global south away from a focus
on the presumed need for economic development. “In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy,”
he wrote, “gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.” Subsequent historiographies
have had to acknowledge the role that international monetary policy had—and continues
to have—in enacting a project of dependency in these regions.
The works on view in Ground Control grapple with the colonial legacy in Latin America.
From the mining of mineral resources such as copper and petroleum, to the commodification
and rarefication of public goods such as water and land, to the compelled migration
and exploitation of human labor, the artists’ awareness of the forces of empire inflects
their visually compelling work.
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