Opening Reception: Landscapes of Care

The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center Inc. (The Clemente) is a Puerto Rican/Latino cultural institution that has demonstrated a broad-minded cultural vision and a collaborative philosophy. While The Clemente’s mission is focused on the cultivation, presentation, and preservation of Puerto Rican and Latino culture, it is equally determined to operate in a multi-cultural and inclusive manner, housing and promoting artists and performance events that fully reflect the cultural diversity of the Lower East Side and the city as a whole.

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But what is care? Is it affection? A moral obligation? Work? A burden? A joy? Something we can learn or practice? Something we just do?

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Curator: Valeria MeillerArtists: Mariángeles Blanco, María Marta Fasoli &amp; Sofía QuirnoGallery: Abrazo Interno GalleryDates: August 10th - September 10th 2022Opening Reception: August 10th, 6-9pmThis exhibition explores practices of care through the work of three Latin American artists. Maríángeles Blanco, María Marta Fasoli, and Sofía Quirno defy traditional approaches to ceramics, watercolors, and oil painting to interrogate the gendered politics of care. Their work resorts to interior and fluid perceptions of the lived environment to reflect on ecology as “oikos”, a Greek term that originally referred to the household. Coupling environmental concerns to domesticity, the show explores expectations of care both as matter and materiality. The liquid nature of moods evokes the sea through the color blue, making interior landscapes shift into waterscapes: spaces of oceanic depth where tranquility meets chaos. Paintings come together with physical objects to create a mobile territory that offers both a critique to gendered expectations of care, and a way of rearranging matter towards radical hope.

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