Caribes (Little Sparrow and His Singing Pan), 2024

Exótico/Ótico (El condor pasa/La Harpe Indienne), 2024

La deformidad del gesto lo dice (The Deformity of the Gesture Says it), 2024

Tropics (Caramba! Los Machucambos), 2024

La Deformidad del Gesto lo Dice (The Deformity of the Gesture Says it)

During the XX and XXI centuries in a globalized world, Latin American and Caribbean music have a halo of exoticism, clichés, and stereotypes. Some of these historical and contemporary conceptions are based on an imaginary atmosphere full of legends, myths, and/or fictions combined with colonial and current social, political, and cultural subjects within the region. This baroque, as a vibratory atmosphere, fashions a visualization of the American Global South, that is distorted in a Latin American medley of colonial and contemporary characteristics. This medley promised an exotic approach to Latin American and Caribbean cultures, as well a magical and wonderful vision of the region, using music and its vibrations as a driver.

“La deformidad del gesto lo dice” (The Deformity of the Gesture Says it), is a new body of work that took its name from an expression that Christopher Columbus exclaimed in his letters when he was trying to describe, and differentiate, the Indigenous cultural perception of the world from his “European modernity”. Using Columbus “assertion” as a name for this art project, produces a socio-political approach to the historical legacy and contemporary attitude that determines the understanding about Latin America and the Caribbean as a fancying approach, not just from the North American lens, but also from some segments of the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora.

“La deformidad del gesto lo dice”, is an art project created by a series of 14 screen-printing interventions on found vinyl records in thrift stores, record stores, and garage sales in Vancouver, BC. As part of the exhibition, a turntable will be display during the time the exhibition is running in the gallery. The public that visits the exhibition will be able to play the records while walk in the gallery. Playing the records will create a different atmosphere, perspective, and experience, complementing the vibrations of the music with the imaginary visualized in the records covers, and the interventions on them.