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