SITElines.2018
Casa tomada
The third installment in the SITElines biennial series focusing on contemporary art from the Americas, Casa Tomada featured 23 artists from eight countries and ten new commissions. The title referenced Argentine writer Julio Cortázar’s 1946 short story “Casa tomada” (“House Taken Over”), which follows two shut-in siblings devoted to the care of their ancestral home. As a mysterious and unnamed presence begins to occupy parts of the house, they are eventually forced onto the street. The exhibition plays off the ambiguities of this story, addressing the reciprocal and complex relationship between the ones who stay and the ones who leave, those that belong and those that are outliers.
Questioning notions of private property — of the body, mind, land, and culture — the exhibition asks how boundaries are dissolved and/or violated. Why do we create these divisions? What marks the difference between guest and trespasser? Who is the host and who is the visitor, and when are these roles reversed?
Exhibited Artists:
Lutz Bacher
Ángela Bonadies & Juan José Olavarría
Melissa Cody
Paz Errázuriz
Victor Estrada
Radames “Juni” Figueroa
Andrea Fraser
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
Fernanda Laguna
Victoria Mamnguqsualuk
Jumana Manna
Eduardo Navarro
NuMu (Jessica Kairé & Stefan Benchoam)
Tania Pérez Córdova
Jamasee Pitseolak
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
Eric-Paul Riege
Curtis Talwst Santiago
Sable Elyse Smith
Stephanie Taylor
Lawrence Paul Yuxweulptun
Curators:
José Luis Blondet, Candice Hopkins & Ruba Katrib
Lutz Bacher
Lutz Bacher lived and worked in New York (d. 2019). Recent solo exhibitions include Fridericianum, Kassel (2021); University Art Gallery, University o...LEARN MOREÁngela Bonadies
Bonadies' photography focuses on memory, the archive, and the visibility and invisibility of cultural structures and city spaces. Her exhibitions incl...LEARN MOREJuan José Olavarría
Juan José Olavarría is an acute observer and translator of present-day Latin America, motivated by an interest in memory and history associated with t...LEARN MOREMelissa Cody
Born 1983 in No Water Mesa, Arizona, Melissa S. Cody is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. In 2007, she received a Bachelor’s degree in Studio A...LEARN MOREPaz Errázuriz
Born in 1944, Paz Errázuriz is a Chilean photographer with a career spanning more than thirty years. She studied at the Cambridge Institute of Educati...LEARN MOREVictor Estrada
Estrada’s paintings offer a dense and textural interpretation of the landscape he annually traverses driving between Los Angeles and El Paso. Disorien...LEARN MORERadames “Juni” Figueroa
Radamés “Juni” Figueroa was born in 1982 in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. He lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Figueroa LEARN MOREAndrea Fraser
Since the mid-1980s, Fraser's pioneering work in the field of institutional critique has investigated the social, financial, and affective economies o...LEARN MORE
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds has studied at the University of Kansas, Lawrence (BFA, 1976), undertaken graduate studies at the Royal College of A...LEARN MOREFernanda Laguna
Fernanda Laguna is a visual artist, writer, activist, art producer. She is one of the most relevant and influential Argentinean artists of her generat...LEARN MOREVictoria Mamnguqsualuk
Mamnguqsualuk created drawings, embroidered textiles, prints and sculptures over the course of her long career that depict Inuit mythologies and oral ...LEARN MOREJumana Manna
Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to c...LEARN MOREEduardo Navarro
Eduardo Navarro creates works rooted in a strong belief in the power of deliberate uncertainty, intuition and curiosity and the place where language a...LEARN MORENuMu (Jessica Kairé and Stefan Benchoam)
Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (NuMu) is the first and only contemporary art museum in Guatemala, dedicated exclusively to supporting, exhibiting, ...LEARN MORETania Pérez Córdova
Tania Pérez Córdova quiet and contemplative works relate to temporality and the lifespan of objects. With her installations having often been likened ...LEARN MOREJamasee Pitseolak
Pitseolak is at the forefront of a new generation of Inuit artists. Pitseolak works in customary materials, including stone, antler and ivory; yet his...LEARN MORENaufus Ramirez-Figueroa
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa creates dreamlike works of art taking elements from literature, folklore, magic and childhood memories. His work explores cult...LEARN MOREEric-Paul Riege
Eric-Paul Riege (Diné) is a weaver and fiber artist working in collage, durational performance, installation, woven sculpture, and wearable art. Using...LEARN MORECurtis Talwst Santiago
Over the last several years, Santiago has been creating dioramas inside of ring boxes. Inside of these small spaces, Santiago constructs environments ...LEARN MORESable Elyse Smith
Sable Elyse Smith is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in New York. Using video, sculpture, photography, and text, she points to...LEARN MOREStephanie Taylor
Partially taking over SITE SANTA FE's institutional voice, Taylor is recording a number of songs/press releases for LEARN MORELawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, graduated from the Emily Carr School of Art and Design in 1983 with an honours degree in painting. Yuxweluptun's strategy i...LEARN MOREJosé Louis Blondet
Curator José Luis Blondet has organized numerous exhibitions and commissioned performance projects, including LEARN MORECandice Hopkins
Candice Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation and lives in Red Hook, New York. Her writing and curatorial practice explore the intersec...LEARN MORERuba Katrib
Ruba Katrib is Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at MoMA PS1, New York. At PS1 she has curated exhibitions such as LEARN MORENaomi Beckwith
In her role as Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Naomi Beckwith oversees collections, exhibitions, publications, and cura...LEARN MORE