ficciones patógenas: Opening Celebration

Thu Mar 13 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-04:00

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art | New York

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Publisher/HostLeslie-Lohman Museum of Art
ficciones pat\u00f3genas: Opening Celebration
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The opening of ficciones patógenas / La inauguración de ficciones patógenas
About this Event

ENGLISH
Join us for the opening celebration of ficciones patógenas.

“Possessed.” “Deviant.” “Sick.” Historically, colonial regimes attempted, gained, and maintained control over cuir/kuir/queer, trans, Black, and Indigenous people by pathologizing them along with their relationships—to the land, to the nonhuman, to one another. The rich sexual and gender diversity of the many cultures of Abya Yala (Kuna for the entirety of the Americas) was unintelligible to Western knowledge frameworks. To justify acts of violent dispossession and extraction, they characterized specific ways of existing as unnatural. These narratives have wound through legal, religious, cultural, political, and ideological structures in Abya Yala since 1492, and—as ficciones patógenas (pathogenic fictions)—they shape our understandings of bodies, land, culture, and power today.

The artists in this exhibition explore how ficciones patógenas have been perpetuated and embodied, occluding local, non-Western, and Indigenous ways of being and knowing. In their 2018 book, ficciones patógenas, Guaxu trans writer, activist, and participating artist Duen Neka'hen Sacchi traces their own medical history through Western regimes of bodily conformity. The wounding and suturing of Neka’hen’s body (and other nonconforming bodies), based on false notions of order and reproduction, echoes the violent reshaping of the “Indies,” which inextricably bound biology to nationhood. Through hybrid practices that draw from Indigenous, colonial, and contemporary images and strategies, the artists propose ways in which land and bodies exist as sites of resistance and transformation.

Organized by Stamatina Gregory, Head Curator/Director of Exhibitions and Collections and Georgie Sánchez.

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Participating Artists

Carlos Arias, Felipe Baeza, Seba Calfuqueo, Javier Cardona Otero, Colectivo Ayllu (álex aguirre sánchez, iki yos piña narváez, kimy/leticia rojas miranda, lucrecia masson córdoba, francisco godoy vega), Mandorilyn Crawford, Gian Cruz, Frau Diamanda, Venuca Evanán, Camilo Godoy, Carlos Martiel, Lulu V. Molinares, Lizette Nin, Rio Paraná (Duen Neka'hen Sacchi, Mag de Santo), Duen Neka'hen Sacchi, Javi Vargas Sotomayor, Lucía Egaña Rojas and Ju Salgueiro, Luis Fernando Zapata



Accessibility

Located at 26 Wooster Street, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art strives to provide a welcoming environment to all visitors. Five external steps lead to our entrance doors: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk: all restrooms are gender-neutral. Large print didactics are available.

For questions or access requests, please email [email protected] with 1 week advance of your visit.




ESPAÑOL
Presentamos la recepción de apertura de ficciones patógenas.

“Poseídos”. “Desviados”. “Enfermos”. Históricamente, los regímenes coloniales intentaron controlar, obtuvieron o mantuvieron control sobre las personas cuir/kuir/queer, trans, negras e indígenas patologizando tanto a los grupos humanos como a sus relaciones con la tierra, con lo no humano y entre sí. La rica diversidad sexual y de género de las muchas culturas de Abya Yala (Kuna para la totalidad de las Américas) era ininteligible para los marcos de conocimiento occidentales. Para justificar actos de despojo y extracción violenta, caracterizaron formas específicas de existencia como antinaturales. Estas narrativas han impregnado las estructuras legales, religiosas, culturales, políticas e ideológicas de Abya Yala desde 1492 y, como ficciones patógenas, dan forma a nuestras comprensiones de los cuerpos, la tierra, la cultura y el poder en el momento presente.

Los artistas en esta exposición exploran cómo las ficciones patógenas han sido perpetradas y encarnadas, ocultando las formas de ser y conocer nativas, no occidentales e indígenas. En su libro de 2018, ficciones patógenas, el escritor trans Guaxu, activista y artista participante Duen Neka'hen Sacchi, traza su propia historia médica a través de los regímenes occidentales de conformidad corporal. La herida y sutura del cuerpo de Neka’hen (y otros cuerpos no conformes), basadas en nociones falsas de orden y reproducción, resuenan con el violento remodelado de las “Indias”, que vinculaba inextricablemente la biología con la nacionalidad. A través de prácticas híbridas que se nutren de imágenes y estrategias indígenas, coloniales y contemporáneas, los artistas proponen formas en que la tierra y los cuerpos existen como sitios de resistencia y transformación.

Organizado por Stamatina Gregory, Curador General/Director de Exposiciones y Collectiones y Georgie Sánchez.

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Artistas en la exposición

Carlos Arias, Felipe Baeza, Seba Calfuqueo, Javier Cardona Otero, Colectivo Ayllu (álex aguirre sánchez, iki yos piña narváez, kimy/leticia rojas miranda, lucrecia masson córdoba, francisco godoy vega), Mandorilyn Crawford, Gian Cruz, Frau Diamanda, Venuca Evanán, Camilo Godoy, Carlos Martiel, Lulu V. Molinares, Lizette Nin, Rio Paraná (Duen Neka'hen Sacchi, Mag de Santo), Duen Neka'hen Sacchi, Javi Vargas Sotomayor, Lucía Egaña Rojas and Ju Salgueiro, Luis Fernando Zapata



Accesibilidad

Ubicado en 26 Wooster Street, cinco escalones exteriores conducen a nuestras puertas de entrada: hay disponible un ascensor para sillas de ruedas. Todas las galerías son accesibles para sillas de ruedas y hay un baño accesible para uso individual detrás del mostrador de servicios para visitantes: todos los baños son neutrales de género. Se encuentran disponibles didácticas en letra grande.

Para preguntas y solicitudes de acceso, escribes a [email protected] con 1 semana avance de su visita, por favor.




IC: Javi Vargas Sotomayor, Huayco Epidemia (Constelación Chuquichinchay) (Huayco Epidemic (Chuquichinchay Constellation)), 201
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