Mujeres de Archivo Closing Workshop and Reception
Mujeres de Archivo, an exhibition featuring the work of three Latinx women artists, deploys a decolonial and feminist approach to archiving, foregrounding memory work, an ongoing history of overlooked labor and knowledge across the Americas. Working across mediums such as textile, print, and sculpture, the exhibition centers archival fragments both inherited and imagined.
C.J. Chueca’s ceramic swimming pools reckon with water as a site of memory, using both presence and absence (as seen in the empty pools of each diptych) to reflect on loss and what endures. Cinthya Santos Briones’ Herbolario Migrante, a collaborative dictionary of herbal remedies, emerges from workshops with migrant women, positioning knowledge as shared and lived. Blanka Amezkua’s vibrant embroideries reclaim forms of labor historically dismissed as “women’s work,” asserting their cultural and material significance in their subject matter of women’s bodies themselves.
June 20th C.J. Chueca will run a free clay workshop followed by a closing reception.
Workshop: Based on the exhibition "Mujeres de Archivo", this workshop explores how the traditions of sewing and embroidering have been passed through generations and still is a personal manifestation of many sentiments. Instead of using threads and fabric, we will use ceramic and painting. Ceramic objects are also part of our usual domestic landscape, the materiality connects with us and brings back many memories. We will do first some exercises to prepare the clay and then we will do our own pañuelos with details that we remember from the past, or that we want to remember in the future. Open to all ages.