Sangre pesada [Heavy Blood]
Naomi Rincón Gallardo
June 15 – September 14, 2019
Curator: David Miranda

Naomi Rincón Gallardo refers to this exercise as a phantasmagorical conjuration of female characters—creators and destroyers at the same time—extracted from Mesoamerican worldviews and from toxic waste, accentuated in the locals’ blood and lungs. The project’s non-linear narrative splits it in six parts: Pulmones [Lungs], Profecía [Prophecy], Colibrí [Hummingbird], La dama de los dientes de cobre [The Lady with the Copper Teeth], La maldición mineral [Mineral Curse], and Sangre pesada [Heavy Blood]. These all constitute the critical substance of a colonial regime still governing and intoxicating the world.