Back/s Together: Gloria Anzaldúa, her drawings, our connections to her
Co-curated with Verena Melgarejo Weinandt
Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ)
Maysedergasse 2/4. Stock
1010 Vienna
Drawings, text fragments and rarely known audio recordings by Gloria Anzaldúa were exhibited together with the work of artists, who linked to Abya Yala, relate in their work to the concepts developed by the Xicana author.
Anzaldua’s drawings come from transparency drawings, notes and diagrams she had presented in the mid 1990s in workshops and lecture “gigs” throughout the USA. The artists –PoC, indigenous, Black, queer and trans– draw inspiration from several of Anzaldúa’s known theoretical reflection such as borderlands, Auto-historia, making faces/ haciendo caras, Coyolxauhqui Imperative, Coatlicue State, or indigenous mythologies and story-telling. All the displayed works by Gloria Anzaldua are part of “Between Word and Image. A Gloria Anzaldúa Thought Gallery” curated by Julianne Gilland from the Benson Latin American Foundation in Texas. Back/s Together is the second part of the ongoing project “Armando Vo(i)ces” from Verena Melgarejo Weinandt.
Participating artists: Nadia Bekkers, Imayna Caceres, Lía García, Marissa Lôbo, Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Rurru Mipanochia, Maque Pereyra, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Fannie Sosa, Sophie Utikal, Yos Piña Narvaez.
Opening: January, 24 2018 19:00
Dates: January, 24—February 24, 2018
Workshop Yoggaton by Maque Pereyra: Sat. January 27, 12:00
Fotos: kunst-dokumentation.com
https://www.vbkoe.org/2018/01/18/exhibition-backs-together/?lang=en
https://www.vbkoe.org/2018/01/18/exhibition-backs-together/?lang=en
Thanks to Verena for inviting me to co-curate and for taking on the difficult task to bring the work of Gloria Anzaldúa to a wider audience in Vienna.