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de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from underwater mountains fire makes islands]
de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from underwater mountains fire makes islands] , curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel With Juno B + Jonas Van, biarittzzz, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Elena Damiani, Vanessa da Silva, Dalissa Montes De Oca, Jes Fan, Duto Hardono, Taloi Havini, Nadia Huggins, Julius Koller, LeoRD, Laryssa Machada, Arquivo Mangue, loren minzú, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, António Ole, Karthik Pandian, Gilson Plano, Noara Quintana, Madeline Jiménez Santil, Cauleen Smith, Kiran Subbaiah, Thaís Espaillat Ureña This group exhibition at Pivô presents works from the KADIST collection and works by artists coming from different contexts in the American continent and Brazil that reflect on the processes of emancipation for human beings’ perceptual systems. de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from underwater mountains fire makes islands] draws from the evolution of aesthetic tools created by communities of people around the world who have thought and desired freedom from outside of the Western imagination. The exhibition is part of a curatorial research project that Yina Jiménez Suriel began in 2019, around the expansion of human subjectivities that contributes to the creation of new and different imaginaries. Over the past year, her research has focused on deepening the study of the perceptual system of the human species and on how aesthetic thinking can contribute to and alter its future. The exhibition aims to identify the trace or evolution of those aesthetic tools in contemporary artistic practices that are cumulatively materializing in the creation of “islands,” where people can live out new forms of relations with all living beings that inhabit the planet. At Pivô, an exhibition, a publication, and seminars are activated through the image of three “mountain ranges.” The first is an island that serves as the site of the exhibition and a screening program; the second is a group of islands that forms a publication (written in Portuguese and English) containing reflections by linguists, curators, and writers who have been fundamental to the research; the third, which is imagined as an underwater mountain, is a series of live seminars, hosted in person and online, that focuses on the generation of imaginations in the human species. Works in the exhibition are placed in relation to form “islands” of perceptual connections—live performances and their documentary forms, sculptural installations, photographs, and videos—that explore the emancipatory potential of materials, actions, and ideas. This gathering of works aims to mobilize the spectator’s desire dimension as well as the productive potency of other imaginaries. de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from underwater mountains fire makes islands] is co-presented by Pivô and KADIST, as part of a collaboration that included support from KADIST which supported Yina Jiménez Suriel’s curatorial research and artist studio visits in Brazil during January of 2022.