Transforming: Here and Now

The exhibition “Transforming Here and Now” presents a selection of eight photographs from my socially and community-engaged art projects.

Transforming: Here and Now

31.01.2025 – 07.02.2025

Groundfloor, Faculty of Arts Building, University of Warwick, University Road, Coventry CV4 7AL ,UK

The exhibition illustrates how individuals and communities assert their agency through environmental initiatives and creative expressions, from community-building environmental projects to reflections on urban, rural, and virtual spaces. These diverse works offer multi-layered perspectives on how different environments foster self-expression and social engagement in our rapidly evolving world. The exhibited works span diverse media and geographies, reflecting urgent social and environmental concerns across the globe. Through various artforms, the artists engage with themes of resistance, identity, and ecological justice. From grassroots activism to digital spaces, their works reveal how communities navigate and transform their environments in pursuit of change and a better future. The exhibition is presented alongside the After Postcolonialism: Global Theory, Local Transformations conference, which brings scholars together to examine the intersection of postcolonial theory and lived experience.

Transforming: Here and Now is an art exhibition featuring canvas art, photography, installations, and video works by twelve international artists: Ann Chang, P.A. Echague, Francesca Mauricio, Manesa Hulia Diaz, Joannes Christopher Gerad, Vardit Goldner, Joe Li, Natalie Lo, Alexandro Casales Navarrete, Moses Sodipo, Konstantina Tompoulidou, and Ngo Chun Tse.

Thank you to the curatorial team

childhood interrupted

 

My work “hopscotch” is represented in the group exhibition

childhood interrupted

01/02/2025 - 01/03/2025

The House of Smalls

103 Henderson Row,Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5BB, Scotland, UK

~ childhood (noun):

the condition of being a child; the period of life before puberty

~ interrupted (adjective):

broken, discontinued, or hindered

Curator Amy Oliver

The work features a drawing of a hopscotch game on broken street and disused rails. The road and rails give the impression that you will fall down the horizon if you hop too far. Everything is surrounded by dark blocks, with a small piece of sky in between. The whole scenery is metaphorical and symbolizes how quickly a childhood can end, be interrupted and disrupted. However, the work contains autobiographical elements about my own childhood and how my childhood and innocence ended after certain experiences. In my childhood. I early became a cynical, doom-thinking, distrustful child who kept my distance from other children and adults.

LATITUDES 2025

The presentation of my video performance “meaning to be hidden” has been scheduled to be screened from Jan. 28 to Feb. 01, 2025 at LATITUDES 2025, at the Gallery of the Centro de la Cultura Plurinacional, CCP. Calle Rene Moreno #369, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia,

LATITUDES 2025

28.01.2025 – 01.02.2025

Venues and hosting organizations: Centro de la Cultura Plurinacional (CCP), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Museo de la Ciudad Altillo Beni (MAB) and Alliance Francaise Santa Cruz (AFSCZ),

City of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia,

Festival Internacional de Performance Art de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and Performance Art Bolivia (PABA)The program of the sixth edition of the festival consists of an exhibition based on records of video performances, presentation of live performances and teleperformances.The Festival addresses a reflection on issues such as the notion of identity, plurinationality, the construction of identification, inequality or regional affiliation, as well as the creation and development of a national corporality as a result of independence and postcolonial thought.

Director & Curator Hector Canonge

 “meaning to be hidden”

The concept of the performance follows a strict choreography, the performer reflects in carefully executed movements the notion of dignity in relation to time, silence, the power of solitude and life. It points out that every living being and every object has a dignity and its time. In addition, it deals with the concepts of desire and uselessness. Desire for uselessness is not about chasing uselessness, but about finding meaning in the seemingly impractical through creativity, criticism and insight. Let us consider desire as an energy, not a void. When desire is freed from the constraints of utility, it becomes a force that can lead us to new ideas and forms of expression, showing that the useless has its own productivity.

https://www.facebook.com/latitudesperformanceartfestival/

Postcards from the Edge

My contribution to Visual AIDS “Dark Red Cloth” / a motif from the Alex & Anna portfolio

Postcards from the Edge – Benefice for Visual AIDS

24.01.- 26.01.2024

Berry Campbell Gallery 524 West 26th Street New York, NY 10001, USA

Founded in 1988. VISUAL AIDS is the only organization fully committed to raising Aids awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting since 1998 the annual visual art project -Postcards from the Edge-

http://postcards.visualaids.org./

3rd International Print Triennial in Cieszyn

 My print work “to the sky” will be presented at

3rd International Print Triennial in Cieszyn

Theme: City Horizons

15.01.2025 – 07.02.2025 (Opening 15.01.2025 at 13.15 h)

University Gallery, 62 Ul. Bielska , Cieszyn, Poland

Solitude - 34Gallery.org

 One of my works from the portfolio “Woman by the Sea” is part of the “34 Gallery” January event on the theme of “Solitude”. The “34 Gallery” is an international art initiative launched by the NGO SimukaAfrica.org in Norton, Zimbabwe, to promote mental health and overcome the related issues of mental disorders in Africa and globally. . “Solitude” will take place from January 3 to 31, 2025, mostly virtually, to reach as many different institutions, experts and audiences as possible in different locations.

www.34gallery.org & www.simukaafrica.org

Superpresent - Secrets and Mysteries

Three of my photographic works “Mystery Light”, “A Time of Mystery and Secret” and “A Graves Mystery Light” are featured in the latest issue of the arts magazine Superpresent with the theme of “Secrets and Mysteries,

Superpresent

A Magazine of the Arts Volume 5, Number 1, -Winter 2025 issue is Secrets and Mysteries

ISSN 2767-5289

Publisher Goupi Press, USA

Superpresent is a quarterly arts magazine. Superpresent is available online and in print copies for each issue. Superpresent publishes poetry, short stories, essays, visual artworks, experimental art, video art and sound art.

This issue, with its theme of “Secrets and Mysteries,” does not reveal the Coca Cola recipe, excerpts from Hitler’s diary, or classified documents from the NSA. Nowhere does this issue reveal the cure for cancer, or who sent the New Jersey drones. You will find some guilty secrets, lustful secrets, secret fantasies, and more than a few mysteries about personhood and the universe. Secrets come in many stripes: they can be positive or negative Some secrets are never revealed and sometimes the mysteries permanently awaits the big reveal.

2025