Guest curated by Erika Hirugami, the exhibition “Fuego eterno: Soberanías visuales” opened yesterday (August 29) at the Ruffin Gallery in the University of Virginia (located at 179 Culbreth Road, Charlottesville, Virginia). It will be on view until October 10, 2025. It will include related events, including a symposium on October 9 and a closing party on October 10. Artists with Caribbean roots include Andrea Chung (of Jamaican and Trinidadian descent) and Scherezade García (born in the Dominican Republic).
Description (by Erika Hirugami, Curator): “Ayuujk (Mixe), Nahua, Maya-Ch’ol, Ñuu Savi (Mixtec), Otomí, Maya-Kaqchikel, P’urhépecha, Diidxazà, Maya-Tsotsil, Zapotec, and Sarhua, are but a fewf the ancestral lineages that collide in Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales. This project brings together the knowledge and aesthetic achievements of individuals whose ancestral lineage predates Spanish colonialism and who center millennia of inherited epistemologies within their contemporary practices.
Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales aesthetically departs from a critical interrogation of nation and citizenship as concrete hope to create sovereign solidarities. At the height of the Spanish Empire, it colonized over thirty-five modern nations. Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales unites them to blur the boundaries of settler colonialism by bringing together artists and scholars from the contemporary nations of México, United States, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, Bolivia, Philippines, Chile, Jamaica, Ecuador, Venezuela, Equatorial Guinea, and many others in an effort to shift toward a new paradigm of interdisciplinary scholarship that transcends borders, linguistics, fields of study, geographical segregation, and extractive colonial epistemologies, methodologies and knowledge making approaches.”
Exhibiting Artists: Marilyn Boror Bor, Edgar Calel, Andrea Chung, Darwin Cruz, Federico Cuatlacuatl, Elvira Espejo Ayca, Sandra Gamarra Heshiki, Scherezade García, Giovanni Fabián Guerrero, Porfirio Gutiérrez, Maruch Méndez, Isabel Rojas Williams, Venuca Evanán Vivanco, Salvador Xharicata.
Symposium: Thursday, October 9, 9am-3:30pm
Join us at the Harrison/Small Auditorium for a series of panel discussions and screenings by distinguished visiting artists, scholars, and UVA faculty.
Closing Party: Friday, October 10, 5pm-10pm
Party with us! DJ, dancing, food and drinks will be enjoyed by all. Guest curator, scholars and exhibiting artists will be in attendance and there will be a special performance by Marilyn Boror Bor.
For more information, see https://art.as.virginia.edu/fuego-eterno-soberanias-visuales
[Shown above: Detail from Sherezade García’s “The Liquid Highway.”]
Guest curated by Erika Hirugami, the exhibition “Fuego eterno: Soberanías visuales” opened yesterday (August 29) at the Ruffin Gallery in the University of Virginia (located at 179 Culbreth Road, Charlottesville, Virginia). It will be on view until October 10, 2025. It will include related events, including a symposium on October 9 and a closing party
