Juan Arango Palacios: Payasadas
@ The Guild Room at Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S Ashland Ave
Opening Monday, July 19th, from 10AM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, August 21st
Juan Arango Palacios:
Payasadas
THE GUILD ROOM
May 7, 2021 – August 21, 2021
Now extended to August 21st!
In Payasadas, Juan Arango Palacios presents a new series of large-scale textile drawings that address the artist’s relationship to the Catholic church. These works critique religious archetypes and offer a personification of a queer narrative, exploring themes of fantasy, vulnerability and performativity. As a queer body that was raised in a post-colonial context in Colombia, Arango Palacios’ identity was shaped in the shadows of North American normativity. The artist’s sense of self was further confounded by a series of migrations experienced as their family searched for work and a more prosperous future. Moving through various homophobic and misogynistic cultures in Louisiana and Texas, Arango Palacios formed a disembodied identity that is not attached to any specific homeland and which has always been challenged by the general norm.
Arango Palacios’ practice works towards addressing the lived experiences of ambulant queer identities that have been marginalized within a diasporic or migratory context. Through the fluid and boundless medium of painting and drawing, the artist has been able to represent memories, places, people and archetypes that they associate with the safety, survival and endurance of queer bodies in spaces that challenge their existence.
This exhibition will be viewable by appointment only. To schedule an appointment, or for sales inquiries, please email art@epiphanychi.com
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