Parallel Realities

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Puerto Rican born photographer Larry González present the show Parallel Realities as a transition between two bodies of work with similar themes. The first body of work was created in Puerto Rico between 2016 – 2019. The second body of work was completed in Argentina between 2022 – 2023.

無知爲用 (Good of Nothing) – Muzi Li Rowe

Rowe is creating a series of Chinese knots, an ancient form of folk art that is typically made with fabric cords and is displayed as festive decoration. Using defunct cables such as ethernet cables, phone charging cables and wired headphones, she is transforming these discarded materials into hand knotted forms with the technique of a traditional Chinese craft.

ground water/sky water – Summer Ventis

The works in this exhibition are a meditation on cycles of flooding and drought, surfeit and lack. Each extreme is disastrous in its own way. The ways in which our actions have endangered the landscape now endanger us. These climatic shifts can also stand in for other vacillations; in politics, institutions, and ourselves. When the world seems upside-down, how do we contend with the weather we make?