“September 1, 2023 – September 30, 2023
Presa House Gallery presents …the river in collaboration with Oolite Arts in Miami and Artpace San Antonio. The exhibition features 2023 Oolite Arts Home + Away Resident Artists Sandra Ramos, Sue Montoya, and Tom Scicluna. The Oolite Arts’ Home + Away offers Miami-Dade-based artists opportunities to participate in Oolite Arts residency takeovers in some of the most important artist residencies across the country. The goal is for participants to garner new ideas and relationships to benefit and further enrich their careers and Miami’s cultural community. This site-specific San Antonio-inspired exhibition, …the river, presents new works by Ramos, Montoya, and Scicluna created during their five-week residence at Artpace San Antonio from March 27–May 1, 2023. The work explores themes of colonialism, power, decay, accumulation, and labor concerning the unique social and material conditions of San Antonio.
Sue Montoya explores themes of accumulation and familial histories of emotional and physical labor by constructing two piñatas and a video. In Bargain$ Depot Piñata (2023), Montoya re-creates the Bargain$ Depot building located next to Ingram Park Mall on the west side of San Antonio in the form of a piñata filled with stuff found in the bins of the depot. Rastro Piñata (2023), Montoya recreates a junkyard car as a piñata with materials found at the Pick-N-Pull near Texas A&M University-San Antonio. The labor of sorting and collecting found in these two sites is an intergenerational practice. In the final work, lo que no aprendí (2023), a video performance features the artist making tortillas from memory.”
-Presa House
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