YOUR HANDS WERE MAKING ARTIFACTS IN THE CORNER OF MY MIND

CURATED BY: JONATHAN HERRERA SOTO

The relationship between artist and artwork is bridged by practice, a never completed, never final daily commitment. How we do our work is how we orient ourselves within the active composition of our lives. To move through a composition–the sedimentation that accumulates into one’s work–we depart from traditional ways of understanding identity and existence. To resist the eye as machinery. This departure steers us toward actively looking at what an artwork does, not what it shows. The living potential of “doing” within art challenges collapsible categories in legibility, toward the literal blurring of the world. 

The artists whose work comprise Your Hands Were Making Artifacts […] turn toward their practices as fertile soil: mound of earth and clay composed of daily little efforts. These artists move from particular to particular, changing one’s mind, and keeping what remains. Akin to the act of drawing, they approach their work not founded in logic but made up of contingencies, paradoxes, stray parts, and overflow. Beyond the surface-level, they guide us through a terrain with many centers and peripheries, engaging dynamic methods of connection and understanding.

FEATURING: Alexandra Beaumont, Arnée Martin, Ashley Koudou, BakiBakiBaki, Delaney Keshena, Elyse Lodermeier, Genie Hien Tran, Godfree Manley-Spain, Grover Hogan, Jelani Ellis, Leeya Rose Jackson, Leon Valencia Currie, Margaret Vergara, Noi, Philipo Dyauli, Savannah Tines, Silent Fox, Whitney Terrill, Hawwa Youngmark, Nafyar, Raye Cordes

ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Jonathan Herrera Soto stutters. This stutter is echoed through his work as visual language via multiplicity, splitting, reuse, and repetition, reflecting the artist’s attempts to reckon with the material biproducts of the labor (love) of translation. Thus, for Herrera Soto, mistranslations are not oddities or glitches to be corrected; they are the very compositional tools that give shape to our world.

Herrera Soto holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. Recent solo exhibitions of Herrera Soto’s include “Twice the Legal Minute” at Hartford University, “All at Once” at Brown University, and “In Between /Underneath” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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