Bohio, ritmos de geometrías | Meer

Mindy Solomon is pleased to present Bohio, ritmos de geometrías Yanira Collado’s first
solo exhibition at the gallery. Bringing together a myriad of material-based practices, Collado
explores history through the reclamation and reimagining of various media.

“I am a multimedia artist working with site-specific installations that encompass painting,
drawing, sculpture, photography, and audio. My practice considers concepts that allude to
the restoration of histories once muted due to natural and human interventions such as the
paradoxes in time and the disruption of indigenous cultures. Concurrently exploring cultural
identity, colonialism, and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalization.

These perceptions are summoned through construction materials, reclaimed literary texts,
wood, concrete, textiles, iron, and drywall. Materials with inherent geographic histories, processes and economies that imply varying degrees of ritual, cultural values, traditions, personalized and public memory. My work assembles a visual language that reconciles the process in which the history of this information is recorded, stored, and retrieved. I am interested in the
labor inherent in these materials and the shapes taken during their transitions which conjure
up transcendence and, in many ways, ‘fragments becoming whole’ (Bell Hooks).

This spirit of inquiry in the embedded narrative of materials has led me to an expansive focus
on textiles. Contextualizing their trajectories and complex but often neglected presence in the
conversation of history and culture.

To study a textile is to study an artifact in context to its societal background but quite often
this manner of study is undervalued or as Henry Glassie, author of Material Culture and Folklorist, states ‘for too long historians have le! out vast realms of experience that do not fit into words at all, that can only be shaped into artifacts.’“

Collado will create an installation in the center of the room with additional works in conversation with the central element. Each image will comprise its own unique space, the surface details carefully considered. We look forward to sharing this thoughtful exhibition with an
appreciative audience.

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