Notes related to Contemporary art

The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) spring 2025 exhibition, continents like seeds, brings together the work of La Chola Poblete (b. 1989, Argentina), Niño de Elche (b. 1985, Spain), and Pedro G. Romero (b. 1964, Spain); through sound, sculpture, performance, drawing, and painting, the show unravels and exposes the contradictions and ambiguities of colonial legacies.

The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis presents Seeds: Containers of a World to Come. The exhibition features recent works and new commissions by ten nationally and internationally known artists for whom the seed is the kernel, both literally and metaphorically, for their investigations into issues of environmental fragility, preservation, and possibility in the face of the global climate crisis.

The work that Lúa Coderch (Iquitos, Peru, 1982) has been doing around language takes over her recent solo show at Madrid's The Ryder Projects to consolidate a new relational vision of communicative practices. Exhausted and exuberant, title of this partially retrospective and almost thesis exhibition, also responds to the two apparently opposite moods, but with an inexorable link, of the vital needs that seep into contemporary society between individuals and a certain extimacy that, organically, seems to have been imposed.

In February, an unprecedented survey of contemporary Native American art curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation) opens at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University—New Brunswick.