EXPLORING THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM THROUGH SENSORY EXPERIENCES
KADIST San Francisco and Delfina Foundation presented iterations of de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas (from the underwater mountains fire makes islands).
The unfolding exhibitions across the institutions explore the concept of freedom through sensory experiences, alternate and altered realities, and interspecies relationships between human and non-human. Featuring over a dozen international artists and collectives, and new commissions from 11 countries including Ghana, Peru, Myanmar, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic. The exhibition unfolds over three rotations at KADIST San Francisco with a concurrent instantiation at Delfina Foundation, asking the question: how does art affect our bodies and perception and contribute to and alter our future?
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View of de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas, KADIST San Francisco, 2023. arquivo mangue, o que diriam as pedras a marte?, 2022; Jonas Van & Juno B, Kebranto, 2021. Courtesy of the artists, KADIST collection. Photo: Robert Divers Herrick.
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Jes Fan, Xenophoria, 2018-2020 (video still) | Courtesy of the artist, KADIST collection
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Jes Fan, Xenophoria, 2018-2020 (video still) | Courtesy of the artist, KADIST collection
Through constellations of artworks installed in constant movement, Dominican Republic-based guest curator Yina Jiménez Suriel investigates the idea of freedom inspired by the tools and knowledge from communities that have desired liberation from the Western imagination. The exhibition is the outcome of an ongoing research project la historia de la montañas (the history of the mountains) that Jiménez Suriel began in 2019 and follows its first iteration in partnership with Pivô, São Paulo, in 2021 and was supported by residencies at Pivô and KADIST San Francisco. An extension of de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas will take place at Delfina Foundation, London in January 2024, following Jiménez Suriel’s residency in 2022.
Jo-ey Tang, KADIST San Francisco Director reflects on the exhibition: “Yina Jiménez Suriel is one of the most vital curatorial voices emerging out of the Caribbean today. She brings her cross-cultural and global sensibility to KADIST and she has conceived an innovative exhibitionary strategy that redefines and expands audience engagement, amplified through programming in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Manila, the Philippines. The exhibition is exemplary of KADIST’s mission in supporting artists and curators through our signature residency program, infusing the San Francisco Bay Area art scene with international artists drawn from the KADIST collection and making their US or West Coast debut, and addressing pressing social and political issues and cultivating arts ecologies on a global scale”.
de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas considers the relationships between the process of emancipation, the perceptual system of the human species, the expansion of human subjectivities, and the creation of new imaginaries.
Artists (KADIST San Francisco)
Rotation #1—Repetition: Jonas Van & Juno B, Jes Fan, Duto Hardono, arquivo mangue, Dalissa Montes de Oca, Angela Su, Maria Taniguchi.
Rotation #2—To fugue: Cross Lypka, Madeline Jiménez Santil, Cathy Lu, Dalissa Montes de Oca, Karthik Pandian, Moe Satt, Angela Su.
Rotation #3—Transmutation: Cross Lypka, Jes Fan, Duto Hardono, Cathy Lu, Rodney McMillian, Phi Phi Oanh.
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