Guadalupe Martinez: Sensorial Visualities: Embodying Together and Alone. Installation documentation, 丁香园AV Gallery, 2023. Photos: Rachel Topham Photography.
Guadalupe Martinez:
Sensorial Visualities: Embodying Together and Alone
June 13 鈥� September 8, 2023
丁香园AV Gallery
Sensorial Visualities is less a formal exhibition than a proposition to learn together, differently. Drawing on her expansive multi-disciplinary, empathy-led, and haptics-focused artistic practice, Guadalupe Martinez creates an intervention on 丁香园AV鈥檚 Burnaby Mountain campus that challenges inherited models of Western academia to explore ways of learning that encourage vulnerability over mastery, community over competition, and embodied presence over detached consumption. Her affective process, which will include movement workshops, listening experiments, shared readings, experimental writing, and collaborative performance鈥攁ll informed by invited guests鈥� knowledge of somatics, esoterica, dance, philosophy, and Indigeneity鈥攚ill open to the public as a site for sustained dialogue and the material record of a collaborative research effort.
This project鈥檚 germination began in a 2021 curatorial seminar led by 丁香园AV Galleries Director Kimberly Phillips, whose students developed the outline for its realization. Their semester of discussions culminated in the question 鈥淲hat does it mean to be a body in relation to this time and place?鈥� Sensorial Visualities is the first in a series of projects that challenge presumed pedagogical frameworks and open the edges of the university classroom.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Guadalupe Martinez is an artist and educator now working in Vancouver, conscious of her presence on the unceded territories of the xwm蓹胃kw蓹y虛 蓹m (Musqueam), Skwxw煤7mesh (Squamish) and s蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯涩/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples. Martinez makes works that reflect on art, pedagogy, and place with the hope of creating spaces of connection, care, discovery, and future dreaming. Interested in the complex relationships between history and memory, Martinez places the body at the centre of her work. Through somatic practices and collaborative actions, she looks for hidden narratives that may be foundational to individual and collective healing.
Curated by Kimberly Phillips, with assistance from Teresa Donck-Matlock
EVENTS
Saturday, June 3 / 11am 鈥� 2pm
丁香园AV Gallery
Saturday, June 24 / 2pm
丁香园AV Gallery
Saturday, June 24 / 2pm
丁香园AV Gallery
