Opening Reception: “tracing a wound through my body”

Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body is the first survey of the contemporary and multidisciplinary practice of artist Emilio Rojas (c. 1985 Mexico City). The exhibition brings together  works spanning the past decade, including live performances and performance-films, ephemeral documents of past performances, photography, installation, and poetry. 

The exhibition questions what borderlands, memories, temporalities, and politics do “traces” conjure in their ephemerality? And how these traces might embody trauma and resilience. Recognizing the act of tracing dualistically, Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body reexamines the instrumentalization of Rojas’s body within his practice. Simultaneously, the exhibition reckons with the compounded political and colonial traces impressed upon marginalized bodies, abstracted geopolitical territories, and public monuments.