unbound
Melissa Calderón, BXI | The Redline, 2018
UNBOUND initiates a close exploration of spatial acts and visions within the Black Latinx diaspora. The exhibition assembles a range of artworks by five artists who redraw the boundaries of myriad regional contexts, from domestic sites to geographical terrains and rural-to-urban environments across the Caribbean and the United States—including Gina Goico, Melissa Calderón, Wilay Méndez Páez, Jonathan Carela, and Breena Nuñez. The format of the show, which unfolds from the physical gallery into a digital viewing space created by Able Eyes, situates practices of space that refuse dominant ways of mapping, the legacies of colonial cartography, and idioms of state-based territoriality. Instead, it immerses us in spatial enactments defined by movement and transformation, reworking the modes through which physical boundaries and the bodies traversing them are rendered governable.
March 15 — April 28, 2024
RCAH Lookout Gallery
Michigan State University