SUDESTADA
SUDESTADA

Exhibition Concept
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new york, 2023

SUDESTADA is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Mexico-City based multimedia artist Ximena Prieto. Curated by Allegra Venturi, Make Yourself at Home explores the echoes of ancestral memory and the diaspora of the imagined home through an installation of sculptures and vases that attempt to create and nurture the fragmented conception of identity in an immigrant family and the homes we construct in the process.

Handmade with a blend of resin and wax mixed with old treasures from a mix of familial archive and collected mementos, Ximena’s installation is accompanied by the exhibition of a vintage collection of garments from the 1950s handmade by SUDESTADA’s Founder - Gimena Garmendia - grandmother in her hometown San Genaro, Santa Fe, Argentina.

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The opening will count with an exclusive performance written and directed by the artist. Performers Arianna Cameron, Eyren Powell, Yo Fu, and Alyssa McDoom will activate the space by reading extracts of the poems that Ximena composed surrounding the driving questions of this show:

 

«Where do we belong?
The first time I was told I was a foreigner is not the first time I felt like an internal exile
I embrace the family I’ve never met
I traverse unknown terrain seeking a darkness that makes it possible to see again.»

—Ximena Prieto

 

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