Jota Mombaça: THE SINKING SHIP/PROSPERITY, artist publication
Jota Mombaça: THE SINKING SHIP/PROSPERITY , artist publication The publication includes Mombaça’s poems and drawings, an experimental essay by art critic and philosopher Darla Migan, and production stills and installation photos from the exhibition THE SINKING SHIP/PROSPERITY. A limited number of copies of the publication are available at KADIST San Francisco. Four poems and eight drawings emerged from Jota Mombaça’s work for THE SINKING SHIP/PROSPERITY. They were produced between March and October of 2022, in seven cities across Latin America and Europe, while preparing for four performances. Through language, movement, and forms, in these works and those of the related installation, the artist explores migration—from the systems that control motion or mobility to their resulting crises of displacement. Mombaça addresses diasporas in the past, present, and future, speculating about ways we might affect change while translating and distributing grief during what they refer to as “states of enforced waithood.” The publication was printed in December 2022 on the occasion of Jota Mombaça: THE SINKING SHIP/PROSPERITY , Mombaça‘s exhibition at KADIST San Francisco and was launched as part of the public program series Currents. Edited by Jo-ey Tang and Lauren Sorresso; design by Tugçe Evirgen Özmen; installation photography by Robert Divers Herrick; Printing by Colpa Press.