“Casa Tomada” at SITE Santa Fe
Artists: Lutz Bacher, Ángela Bonadies, Melissa Cody, Tania Pérez Córdova, Hildegarde Duane Paz Errazuriz, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Victor Estrada, Radames “Juni” Figueroa, Fernanda Laguna, Jumana Manna, Victoria Mamnguqsualuk, Eduardo Navarro, NuMu (Jessica Kairé and Stefan Benchoam), Juan José Olavarría, Jamasee Pitseolak, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Eric Paul Riege, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Sable Elyse Smith, Stephanie Taylor, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, David Lamelas
Venue: SITE Santa Fe
Exhibition Title: Casa Tomada
Curated by: José Luis Blondet, Candice Hopkins, and Ruba Katrib; curatorial advisor: with Naomi Beckwith
Date: August 3, 2018 – January 6, 2019
Note: The gallery guide from this exhibition is available here.
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Images:
- Andrea Fraser
- Andrea Fraser
- Andrea Fraser
- Andrea Fraser
- Andrea Fraser
- Andrea Fraser
- Sable Elyse Smith
- Fernanda Laguna
- Fernanda Laguna
- Fernanda Laguna
- Fernanda Laguna
- Lutz Bacher
- Lutz Bacher
- Lutz Bacher
- NuMu (El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo) (est. 2012 in Guatemala City, GTM, by Stefan Benchoam and Jessica Kairé), Radamés “Juni” Figueroa
- NuMu (El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo) (est. 2012 in Guatemala City, GTM, by Stefan Benchoam and Jessica Kairé), Radamés “Juni” Figueroa
- NuMu (El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo) (est. 2012 in Guatemala City, GTM, by Stefan Benchoam and Jessica Kairé), Radamés “Juni” Figueroa
- NuMu (El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo) (est. 2012 in Guatemala City, GTM, by Stefan Benchoam and Jessica Kairé), Radamés “Juni” Figueroa
- NuMu (El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo) (est. 2012 in Guatemala City, GTM, by Stefan Benchoam and Jessica Kairé), Radamés “Juni” Figueroa
- NuMu (El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo) (est. 2012 in Guatemala City, GTM, by Stefan Benchoam and Jessica Kairé), Radamés “Juni” Figueroa
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Victoria Mamnguqsualuk
- Victoria Mamnguqsualuk
- Victoria Mamnguqsualuk
- Jumana Manna
- Jumana Manna
- Jumana Manna
- Jumana Manna
- Jumana Manna
- Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Victor Estrada
- Paz Errázuriz
- Paz Errázuriz
- Paz Errázuriz
- Paz Errázuriz
- Paz Errázuriz
- Melissa Cody
- Tania Perez Cordova
- Tania Perez Cordova
- Tania Perez Cordova
- Melissa Cody
- Melissa Cody
- Melissa Cody
- Angela Bonadies
- Angela Bonadies
- Angela Bonadies
- Angela Bonadies
- Angela Bonadies
- Angela Bonadies
- Angela Bonadies
- Angela Bonadies
- Lutz Bacher
- Eduardo Navarro
- Eduardo Navarro
- Eduardo Navarro
- Eduardo Navarro
- Eduardo Navarro
- Jamasee Pitseolak
- Jamasee Pitseolak
- Jamasee Pitseolak
- Jamasee Pitseolak
- Curtis Talwst Santiago
- Curtis Talwst Santiago
- Curtis Talwst Santiago
- Curtis Talwst Santiago
- Curtis Talwst Santiago
- Curtis Talwst Santiago
- Curtis Talwst Santiago
- Curtis Talwst Santiago
- Curtis Talwst Santiago
- Curtis Talwst Santiago
- Curtis Talwst Santiago
- Sable Elyse Smith
- Sable Elyse Smith
- Sable Elyse Smith
- Sable Elyse Smith
- Sable Elyse Smith
- Sable Elyse Smith
- Stephanie Taylor
- Stephanie Taylor
- Stephanie Taylor
- Stephanie Taylor
- Stephanie Taylor
- Stephanie Taylor
- Stephanie Taylor
- Stephanie Taylor
- Stephanie Taylor
- Stephanie Taylor
- Stephanie Taylor
Images courtesy of SITE Santa Fe. Photos by Eric Swanson.
Press Release:
The title of SITElines.2018 references Argentine writer Julio Cortázar’s 1946 short story “Casa tomada” (House Taken Over), which follows two bourgeois siblings who rarely leave their ancestral home. As a disruptive and unexplained presence begins to occupy parts of the house, they are eventually forced out onto the street without any material possessions except a wristwatch and a key.
“Casa tomada” is a complex tale of class and dispossession. Who belongs—when, where, how, and why—is a line of questioning that also informs this exhibition. The events that rupture communities, the building and severing of monuments, the displacement and resettle-ment of people, and the clearing and occupation of places are central concerns. In this exhibition fragments of language, of material, of history, of culture, reveal the unattainability of the whole.