Cuerpo: Carlos Martiel
Cuerpo: Carlos Martiel
Employing his body as a primary medium, Carlos Martiel utilizes endurance performances in both public and gallery spaces to delve into the complex legacies of colonialism on race, labor, and migration.
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El Museo del Barrio
May 02, 2024 to August 11, 2024
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Exhibition Details

This groundbreaking survey encapsulates Martiel’s performance-based practice of nearly two decades. Employing his body as a primary medium, Martiel utilizes endurance performances in both public and gallery spaces to delve into the complex legacies of colonialism on race, labor, and migration.

Additional Details

The exhibition features a selection of the artist’s most significant projects to date, bringing together different spaces and temporalities through preparatory drawings, photographs, and videos, as well as the remains of past sculptural performances, in dialog with El Museo’s multidisciplinary project space, Room 110.

Location

El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)
New York, NY 10029

Image: Carlos Martiel, Monumento I [Monument I] (detail), 2021 / photo by Walter Wlodarczyk, courtesy of El Museo del Barrio