Altar’d Continuum: Resistance and Empowerment in Sacred Spaces
Curated exhibition, 2019
Featuring works by Ester Hernandez, Judy Miranda, Eileen Roscina, Louis Trujillo, Ana Mendieta, Jolene Yazzie, Rose B. Simpson, Sierra Montoya Barela, Yreina Cervantez, Jude Sanchez, Alma Trevizo, and Grace Gutierrez.
(in collaboration with Danielle Cunningham and Laura Beacom). This exhibition emphasizes the altar as both a physical and non-physical space for personalized ritual exchange between humans and the divine. By pairing contemporary artists alongside religious ofrendas, retablos, and other iconography from the museum’s collections, the exhibition illustrates the altar’s inherent transcendence of time and space. These new altars reject any singular context, operating as platforms of resistance through which altar-makers reinterpret traditional practices and reclaim power from mainstream institutions.
image documentation courtesy of Erynn McConnell
Press
image documentation by Erynn McConnell
Altar’d Continuum: Resistance and Empowerment in Sacred Spaces
Curated exhibition, 2019
Featuring works by Ester Hernandez, Judy Miranda, Eileen Roscina, Louis Trujillo, Ana Mendieta, Jolene Yazzie, Rose B. Simpson, Sierra Montoya Barela, Yreina Cervantez, Jude Sanchez, Alma Trevizo, and Grace Gutierrez.
(in collaboration with Danielle Cunningham and Laura Beacom). This exhibition emphasizes the altar as both a physical and non-physical space for personalized ritual exchange between humans and the divine. By pairing contemporary artists alongside religious ofrendas, retablos, and other iconography from the museum’s collections, the exhibition illustrates the altar’s inherent transcendence of time and space. These new altars reject any singular context, operating as platforms of resistance through which altar-makers reinterpret traditional practices and reclaim power from mainstream institutions.
image documentation by Erynn McConnell
Press