This will pass
Featuring works by artist in residence Dalila Sanabria, curated by Laura G. Gutiérrez | September 14 - December 6, 2024 at 20 Cooper Square, 4th floor. RSVP for the exhibition opening on September 14 from 3:00-5:00pm.
Without Rise, 2023, courtesy of the artist
In This will pass, the material and the ethereal commingle to instantiate a cosmos into existence, one where we may desire to board and transport ourselves. Its transit through life’s timeline is less defined, but all we know is that we want to partake in its impulse for revelry within its confines. With Carrier’s materiality (a mix of wood, earth, and palm tree leaves), Dalila Sanabria gestures towards myth and memory and where their diasporic wayward glance brings forth a reimagined Caleuche from Mapuche mytho-history. A ghost party ship that holds the promise to joy, where we may sustain the harshness of life in the present but move ever so jubilant into the future.
Sanabria’s Caleuche is imbued with a futuristic capacity as it also invites us to enter its Porthole and step into another dimension. With the convergence of the earthen materials used for the vessel that assure an exuberant transmission, and the corporeal movement within the video as testament to queer femme resilience, Sanabria’s blend of aesthetics generate necessary tensions between what was and what is possible. In a sense, the large-scale installation is capacious enough to bring us into its fold and with its merriment-making potential, carry us into the queer horizon.
Curated by Laura G. Gutiérrez
Related Programming
Exhibition Opening
RSVP for the exhibition opening and reception on September 14 from 3:00-5:00pm at 20 Cooper Square, 4th floor.
Public Program
Featuring AIR Dalila Sanabria, artist Catalina Tuca and curator Laura G. Gutiérrez, the conversation centers their artistic practice and work across media, video, and performance.
Meet the AIR
Click here to read a Q&A between Dalila Sanabria and curator Laura G. Gutiérrez.
About the Artist
Dalila Sanabria is a Chilean-Colombian-American artist from central Florida. Working primarily with sculpture and video, her work references domestic sites and sacred architectures, accumulating organic materials as catalysts for exploring displacement, permanence, and belonging. Sanabria has received an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a BFA in Art, and a BA in Portuguese Studies from Brigham Young University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, UT; Ortega y Gassett Projects in Brooklyn, New York City; Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago, IL, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. Her work has been written about and mentioned in Art in America, Terremoto Magazine, SaltLakeUnderground Magazine, and Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. She is also the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, being a Gilbert Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and participated in residencies and workshops at the Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Sweet Pass Sculpture School, and ACRE (Artists’ Cooperate Residency & Exhibitions).
Dalila Sanabria is a 2024-2025 Artist-in-Residence at The Latinx Project. Read our full interview with Sanabria
About the Curator
Laura G. Gutiérrez is Associate Professor in Latinx Studies in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Public Practice in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Gutiérrez is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (recipient of an MLA book award) and has published on Latinx performance, border art, Mexican video art, and Mexican political cabaret. She was a Scholars Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles during the Fall of 2022 and a UT Provost Author’s Fellow from 2022-23, and thanks to these she was able to work on her manuscript entitled Binding Intimacies in Contemporary Queer Latinx Performance and Visual Art. In Austin, TX she also serves as the Artistic Director for OUTsider, a nonprofit queer and trans arts organization that programs an annual festival in the community.
Visitation
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor, New York, NY
September 14 - December 6, 2024
Members of the general public can email xr2078@nyu.edu to schedule a visit. NYU community members can visit the exhibition Monday through Friday between 9-5:00pm with their NYU ID.
For more information, please email xr2078@nyu.edu with any inquiries.
Supporters
“This will pass” is made possible with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.