“Acaba y empiezas tú,” is a multimedia project that uses sculpture, sound, alternative photography, and installation to interpret site, ritual, and migration. The work in the series considers how movement—both forced and voluntary—shapes identity, collective and solo memory, and engages material and form to create layered, tactile narratives. The sculptures incorporate vegetable-tanned leather, plant life, and found materials sourced from the architecture of sites of Black life and memory in the Americas. Engaging with material and form to create layered, tactile narratives that speak to the fluidity of geographies, I draw on the work of scholars such as Katherine McKittrick, M. Jacqui Alexander, and Fred Moten. Sculptures in the series are made of materials from sites like Lincoln Beach, the 9th and 7th Ward in New Orleans, Park Slope in NYC, and Palmira, Colombia.
Last two images in the slideshow by Jordan Rodriguez, courtesy of AGCC.
