Medida del Mar @ Salón Silicón 7.11.

Alva Mooses at Salón Silicón curated by Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen

Medida del Mar, la primera exposición individual de la artista Alva Mooses en la Ciudad de México, reúne obras recientes que se han desarrollado de manera material, conceptual y afectiva. Incluye recortes de aluminio, textiles, grabados, cerámicas y una instalación sonora que resultan de exploraciones desarrolladas a lo largo de varios años. A partir de multiples reconfiguraciones de un modelo de globo terráqueo, Mooses genera una serie de símbolos que resaltan la posibilidad de nuevas construcciones, lenguajes y formas de medir la tierra. En esta exposición, la artista explora el escurrimiento, el drenado y el hilado, y repiensa los dispositivos de medición del mundo mientras traza hilos formales y afectivos entre el cuerpo y la tierra.

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Ear to the Earth / Culebra Truena Tormenta

Alva Mooses’ new ceramic sculptures navigate the collapse of an anthropocentric, climate-damaged world. Deflated terrestrial globes—objects that emerged with the onset of colonization to map, chart, and therefore conquer land and bodies of water—sink under their own weight, creating erogenous slits and openings in the process. Broken or no longer erect, the stands designed to uphold them become inoperative. Alva’s deconstructed globes undermine the project of western geography and the violence of its measuring tools, favoring instead a world, earth, planet governed by the erotics of its own materials. Out of these ruins of colonial domination, she composes a new syntax–sentences written with pieces of the shattered globe stands immersed in porcelain tablets. Between past disasters and ominous futures, Mooses creates sculptures inviting viewers to attune their senses to the very composition of the earth— its soil and minerals—rather than to its representation.

-Mirene Arsanios

New works created during my residency at Greenwich House Pottery will be on view at Front Art Space in Tribeca this June. The artist talk on June 16th is organized by Greenwich House Pottery and will be followed by a live performance by violinist Tomoko Omura. Photographs by Alan Wiener.

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(Be) Longing @ TSA New York

February 19 – March 27, 2022

Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present (Be)Longing an exhibition of works by artists Jesus Benavente, Carlos Jiménez Cahua, Bonam Kim, and Alva Mooses. Nostalgia is a nexus for the works. Each one confronting and analyzing the complexity of nostalgia as a lingering sentiment and an underlying perspective to their history and identity. Through the image and object, they explore personal and universal confinements of living and being in the United States. 

Curated by Eva Mayha Davis and Cecile Chong.

Photo by Argenis Apollinario.

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Letters of a Compass

You Enter Dancing/ There’s Always Sign

Review by Tatiane Santa Rosa on Latinx Spaces published on May 27, 2021.

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Series of audio recordings created in collaboration with The Clemente and recorded by Doug Berns:

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Handmade paper, pages from an artist book in progress, 2021.

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Socrates Annual Fellowship 2019-20

se entra bailando / you enter dancing (2019) looks to the site of the Paricutín volcano in Michoacán, Mexico and consists in part of cement cast forms based on corn forms, sandals, candles, and other objects. Commissioned by the Socrates Annual Fellowship 2019; on view October 2019 - March 2020. Closing reception with dance by youth dance group from Michoacán, Mexico scheduled for March 29th, 2020.

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Smack Mellon Hot Picks

Selected for Smack Mellon's Hot Picks in 2018.

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