Primer Aviso
JULIO Artist run-space
Assemblage#45
Group show: Omar Castillo Alfaro,
Vir Andres Hera and Manoela Medeiros
¶Dayneris Brito
This exhibition tends to contradict and contaminate the Western perspective of the relationship between the marginal subject and art, established through strategies of reconciliation and disruption.
These works derive from the multiple forms generated in the cosmogonies operating in the territories of Abya Yala (the pre-conquest term for Latin America). Taking Ivy Queen and Maria Becerra’s iconic single as its title, Primer aviso recreates a declaration of autonomy, as a validation arising from the expression of a voice of its own. It is at once a meme, a refrain and warning of a confrontation to come, and it evokes the collective language of a fringe of
Latin American women who have succeeded in reclaiming their place in history from otherness and exile.
A language condensed into mobile, transgender, multiform, cross-border bodies. By occupying the JULIO space with this collective action, the result of a curatorial complicity between curator and artists, we aim to rethink the concept of occupation, of borrowing. What does it mean to operate on foreign soil? Is there really such a thing as a neutral space, where practices coexist without being silenced?
Omar Castillo Alfaro,
Stalactite-Naab (series), 2022. Rebal (steel)
and kerosene Earthen curtains, 2024. Fabric, soil, dried peppers,
coffee and glue, 2 canvases.
Exhibition view at Primer aviso, 2024,
JULIO artist run-space, Paris, (FR). © photo Julio
Artist run-space.
Omar Castillo Alfaro, Exhibition view at Primer aviso, 2024, JULIO artist run-space, Paris, (FR). © photo Julio Artist run-space.
Omar Castillo Alfaro, Exhibition view at Primer aviso, 2024, JULIO artist run-space, Paris, (FR). © photo Julio Artist run-space.