Event Description
de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from the underwater mountains fire makes islands] at KADIST San Francisco is the second iteration of an exhibition curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel, following its first appearance in São Paulo, Brazil. It continues an ongoing curatorial research project that began in 2019 entitled la historia de las montañas (the history of the mountains) that considers the relationship between the process of emancipation, the perceptual system of the human species, the expansion of human subjectivities, and the creation of new imaginaries, through investigating the tools and knowledge created by communities of people around the world who have thought and desired freedom from outside of the Western imagination. The de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas exhibition brings together artworks as “aesthetic tools” that hold power to “touch desire” and as accesses to a renewed vital force. Operating with and reconciling with the constant movement of the world, the iteration in San Francisco is structured into three rotations and through each constellation of artworks map: how do artworks affect our bodies and the ideas of the possible, and contribute to and alter our future?
A forthcoming publication will be co-published with Sming Sming Books, with the support of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Speaker
Yina Jiménez Suriel is a curator and researcher with a master’s degree in visual studies. She is the curator for The Current IV by TBA21-Academy, a three-year research project entitled otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua (other mountains, adrift beneath the waves). She is the Associate Editor of the magazine Contemporary And (C&) for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Cosponsors
Hosted by KADIST San Francisco and co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.