Description
During this edition, we not only wanted to showcase great artists but also spotlight other organisations who are doing exciting work. not the owners present an exhibition showcasing works that delve into and address the complexities of diasporic experiences, and politics, and pursue a decolonisation view in the arts. The artworks displayed in the exhibition fracture and question the narrative of the “main text”, looking to find new ways of expanding and naming the world. These “footnotes” have taken on a life of their own, ironically commenting on their own condition, adding texture to the world, and opening the door to its complexity.
About Not The Owners, Artists and Curator
not the owners are an award-winning curatorial collective and pop-up gallery endorsed by Goldsmiths, University of London, with the mission to pioneer new avenues for Latin American art in the UK through their curatorial practices and interdisciplinary programs. Proudly showcasing, nurturing and promoting artists who are reshaping the narrative of mainstream art while also facilitating their commercial success.
Exhibition Panel Talk
The Global West and the Mondiale Other
‘A discussion facilitated by Gabriela Román González, involving Directorio Global members, including Nao Zaragoza Mexican Curator (Design Museum), Mich Ieaño, Latino Collective President and Roberto Tovar, creator of Número de Serie project. This is an opportunity to nurture and stimulate conversations about the Latin American creative community in the UK and engage in dialogues regarding decolonial practices arising from various domains of work.’
The Artists
Joiri Minaya – Joiri Minaya (1990) is a Dominican-United Statesian multidisciplinary artist whose recent works focus on destabilizing historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity.
Jose Garcia Oliva – José is a multidisciplinary, research-based artist born and raised in Venezuela and based in London. The foundation of his work is based on creating platforms and facilitating activities to explore the intricate connections between migrant labour, diasporic identity, and oppressive systemic structures. Through an emphasis on participatory processes, his approach ensures shared authorship, rerouting any generated profits back to the causes collaboratively addressed. José’s work draws inspiration from everyday objects, specific locations, and the people involved. The outcomes take the form of traces from participatory performances, ranging from large paintings and sculptures to video works.
Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana – In my work, I pursue ‘community’ (within a spectrum of Blackness/indigeneity) as an active vessel for codes, narratives and characters. I imagine this community as a shifting/complex social landscape, in full rejection of a uniform imagining of what a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ community may be. Through video installation, performance and cinema, much of what I have been exploring has been the ‘theatre’ of interpreting, processing and tracing lived experience; as a strategy to decipher Afro-Diasporic histories.