Shifting Realities showcases a group of diverse artists whose practices confront our current landscape of political polarization and widespread doubt. Through their work, these artists navigate paths toward stability and solace for themselves and their communities amid profound societal transformation.
This artist conversation is part of the exhibition whose theme asks a fundamental question: What constitutes our shared reality in an era when historical narratives face revision, factual foundations erode, and individual identities risk being silenced?
Join us at 6:30 p.m. at Taller for a discussion with artists Kukuli Velarde, Silvana Cardell, Marta Sánchez, and Eugenio Salas about their work and the work in the show. The curator, Rafael Damast, will moderate the talk.
Philadelphia-based artist Kukuli Velarde is a painter and sculptor. Primarily known for her feminist reinterpretations of Colonial painting and Pre-Columbian sculpture, Velarde’s work brings together the personal and the political, zeroing in on the perspectives of the indigenous people’s culture of her native Peru and those cast into the corner of society due to their age or appearance.
Silvana Cardell is an Argentine choreographer, dancer, and educator known for her daring, evocative work in contemporary dance theater. Her choreography explores identity and urgent societal issues, including climate crisis, forced migration, and animal exploitation.
Chicanx artist Marta Sánchez draws profound inspiration from traditional Mexican folk art traditions. Her artistic practice primarily focuses on linocut, monotype, and painting with collage on metal. In her work, she has explored memory, mental health, and placemaking.
Eugenio Salas is a Mexican/Canadian artist based in Philadelphia. His practice involves disrupting social roles and dynamics through collaborative process-based projects carried out autonomously and within institutions. The resulting participatory, performative actions employ sculpture, media, print, live actions, and cooking.
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