#RAFA ESPARZA STARING AT THE SUN SERIES#

After the performance, esparza and numerous collaborators hopped on a plane to New York two days later, they stood before the same, now partly destroyed column, at Performance Space New York. s she orgasmes pussy arabic masturbating. The column referred to the fortifications of white supremacy in America’s capital, with esparza struggling against the containment that is violently real for thousands of adults, children, and toddlers in U.S. fucks step-son livegonzo cum brunette couple fucking cum intimate handjob. The first part, staged in Washington, D.C., had the artist chiseling his way out of an Ionic column, crafted with artist Timo Fahler, in front of the White House. street then known as Calle de los Negros by having firecrackers hurled at his plaster-covered face.Įsparza’s most ambitious project to date, a two-part performance called bust: indestructible columns, debuted this past fall. In 2013, working with Sebastian Hernández in a performance called chino, indio, negro, he alluded to the trauma of the 1871 mass lynching of Chinese immigrants on an L.A. Many of esparza’s body-based performances grow from the ongoing trauma resulting from colonialism, displacement, and systemic racism. For esparza, the work also acknowledges the wide range of contemporary brown/Mexican-American/immigrant or indigenous experiences. Rafa See 2,164 photos and videos on their profile. This is more than just a way of diverting institutional resources and bringing attention to other artists. MASS MoCA shared a photo on Instagram: 'I want to overwhelm you with earth.' 'Te quiero abrumar con tierra.' - elrafaesparza.

building: a simulacrum of power2014, Rafa Esparza, Performance. Esparza sees collaboration as an essential part of a practice centered around community. My work responds to sites such that the people who routinely occupy them (in the case of Elysian Park, mostly Latinos looking for anonymous gay sex) become the intended audience for the work. What could have been a solo presentation wound up as a group show of sorts, featuring stacked volcanic rocks by Beatriz Cortez, a golden mural on the adobe’s irregular surface by Eamon Ore-Giron, a faux-archaeological artifact by Gala Porras-Kim, and large-scale portraits of Mexicans going about their everyday lives by Dorian Ulises López Macías.

#RAFA ESPARZA STARING AT THE SUN SERIES#

biennial and, later, the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Esparzas Staring at the Sun was an solo exhibition at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts where he covered the white gallery space with adobe bricks and featured a series of new paintings on the surface of the adobe, which included portraiture, landscape, and abstraction.

The adobe bricks showed up again at the 2016 edition of the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. Hedi Slimane/Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council

Rafa esparza staring at the sun