Join us October 15 at 5:30PM for a guided tour led by the curator and artist Catalina Tuca and Josh Araujo of the exhibition in our LES Gallery "Temporary solutions that stay forever".

The exhibition ensembles the work of three artists from Latin American descent, living in the NYC area. Through different approaches and media -such as sculpture, video, and performance- they embrace the notions of precarity, vulnerability, and uncertainty.

Precarity is one of the words that characterizes Latin America; thin threads sustaining a whole political, social, cultural body, which is about to break, yet it never does. In a reverse reaction, it survives under its own rules and subtle dynamics usually based on creativity and endurance. Living under these conditions creates specific ways of navigating the waters of economic survival. Here, being an artist is a privilege: sometimes painful, sometimes heroic.

Spontaneity, vulnerability, fragility, uncertainty, together with the unsolved, and the temporary solutions that finally stay forever, are situations to face under the precarious system. Today these conditions are visibly a global reality rather than a characteristic of the global South. Climate change, a lingering pandemic, and a worldwide never-ending migration crisis are events that we all share and prove once more that the sense of control and certainty that we seek is a fantasy.

However, Temporary solutions that stay forever aims to show how these conditions can be a possibility, a potential, a creative force, that gives space to unique and unexpected ways to live, create, and maybe continue being an artist.

Link to RSVP here
Refreshments will be serve.