El Corazón Aúlla (Heart Howls): Latin American Feminist Performance in Revolt
Exhibition Opening
Thursday, September 29, 2022
6 to 8pm
The 8th Floor
17 W 17th Street, NYC
Rossella Matamoros-Jiménez, ¿Cómo llegué aquí? (How did I get here?), 2020. Video stills. Courtesy of the artist.
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is pleased to present El Corazón Aúlla (Heart Howls): Latin American Feminist Performance in Revolt at The 8th Floor, opening on September 29, 2022 and on view until January 21, 2023. The exhibition examines gender-based violence in Latin America through the eyes of artists and activists who bear its daily burden. Working from Peru, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, the female and nonbinary artists included in El Corazón Aúlla harness their practices for rebellion. Performance is a particularly powerful tool for confronting brutal absence and loss. Through performance, they evoke the rage, fear, ritualized mourning, and feminist community care that inhabits their fight for survival.
Curated by Alexis Heller and Tatiana Muñoz-Brenes, the exhibition is the result of the Foundation's first-ever curatorial open call. Featuring Nayla Altamirano, Denise E. Reyes Amaya, Elina Chauvet, Cristina Flores, Regina José Galindo, Fernanda Laguna and Cecilia Palmeiro, Flavia Marcus Bien, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Rossella Matamoros-Jiménez, Bárbara Milano, Wynnie Mynerva, Jazmín Ra, and Berna Reale.
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Image descriptions: In the video still on the left, a wood chair with an attached desk has a small stack of white papers and a glass of water placed on top. The background is a dark, empty room. In the video still on the right, a person in a dirty white hoodie is hunched over against a large white wall, where Spanish words are scribbled in black. The most discernible text reads: "El dice que (...) quiere". The space appears to be illuminated by a single spotlight on the wall.