UMBILICAL TRANCES AND IMPROVISED ARCHITECTURES

UMBILICAL TRANCES AND IMPROVISED ARCHITECTURES

Charo Oquet has systematically disregarded disciplinary boundaries in her artistic practice inspired above all by Afro-centric cosmologies, alchemy and shamanism. In this conversation we learn how deep each one of her journeys into painting, sculpture and performance is embedded in her trance-like creative stamina. The new series, Collage Paintings, inaugurate yet another exciting period in her prolific career, resonating with her characteristic bold use of color and her phenomenal insight into movement and volume. In conversation with Oquet, we explore and celebrate her freedom of movement between abstract and figurative painting, between performance and action painting, and above all between the multiple junctions of that infinite skeleton known as space. 

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Exploring Shadows and Light at Project Row Houses

Exploring Shadows and Light at Project Row Houses

The Dominican artist is standing in the middle of her installation inside 2515 Holman Street, one of the Project Row Houses buildings. The work, titled Written on Skin and Sacred Gestures, incorporates planks of wood, glass bottles filled with dyed water, large scraps of colorful fabric, and talisman-like sculptures, all climbing up a path into the middle of the room. The installation does evoke a feeling of joy, or maybe a feeling of accomplishment, as though one has scaled a large mountain.

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