Interloper

This Land is Your Land examines what is possible when there are boundaries without borders. In “Non-Committal” Elisheba Johnson questions the mutuality of her connection with her hometown of Seattle, cleverly highlighting the relational nature of belonging and freedom. In “Pathways” Deja Milany traces her experience of relationship and community through the entwining of the braid. The specific location of Milany’s exhibition at (Seattle) Salon grounds her work in her intention to “challenge the world’s interaction with black hair.”

This pairing of two solo exhibitions illuminates how our freedom is not merely dependent on one another, but rather deeply interwoven together.

What determines ownership? Landlines, bloodlines, or simply believing this is the right question to ask?

Deja Milany // Pathways // Interloper (Seattle) Salon

Elisheba Johnson // Non-Committal // Interloper (Seattle) Textboard

This Land is My Land // May 29 - August 29, 2021 // Interloper

This Land is My Land is a pairing of two solo exhibitions, each artist asking about the impact of the lines we draw between us. Rodrigo Valenzuela’s “AFTERWORK” explores the significance of redefining physical & digital borders in land and labor. In Marina Camargo’s “Shifting: displaced”, the work examines moving boundaries and the spaces between, from the northern and southern hemispheres all the way to a specific Seattle neighborhood.

What determines ownership? Landlines, bloodlines, or simply believing this is the right question to ask?

Rodrigo Valenzuela // AFTERWORK // Interloper (Seattle) Textboard

Marina Camargo // Shifting: displaced // Interloper (Seattle) Warehouse

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Zambo Mulato Criolo Cafuzo // Co-curated with Anna Parisi // February 14 -August 12, 2021 // Das Schaufenster

Latin American Artists and LatinX artists have, for too long, been shut out of art history. Not to mention art visibility and art opportunity. Their visions, aesthetics, and expressions resulted from mixing their Portuguese, Spanish, African, and Indigenous drops of blood in Latin America's racial cauldron. Zambos, Mulatos, Cafuzos, and Criollos were how they were identified and scornfully miscalled throughout the 17th to 19th centuries. The Spanish and Portuguese colonizers used racial slurs to identify their mestizaje. As their lands, produce, children, women, cultures, and religions were exploited and colonized, northern countries forcedly welcomed their silence. One would argue that this speaks of the past, and much has changed. Our art histories show a different story. Many Latin American and LatinX artists do not have the visibility nor are allowed to exhibit their visions and enter the pristine white spaces of contemporary museums and galleries. Zambo Mulato Cafuzo Criolo is a series of six solo exhibitions that present six voices that insist on reclaiming their Latin American and LatinX visions of dissent, with pride and in power. Speaking about the new understandings of where Latin America stands in the context of world politics and concerning the systems of oppression. Zambo Mulato Cafuzo Criolo is a provoking form of a call to action that emerges from the works on view, coupled with a belief in art as a tool for criticality and effective change. - Anna Parisi

Collaboration is a radical form of resistance to hierarchies of power that keep colonialism, white supremacy and patriarchy as the framework of how we view art. Co-curating Zambo Mulato Criolo Cafuzo in collaboration with Anna Parisi brings to the forefront a series of crucial visual voices. This is not for a white audience, yet everything a white audience needs to see. - Tiffany Danielle Elliott

Natalia Almonte // Un día como hoy (A day like today) // February 14 - March 12, 2021

Iván Sikic // BREACH // March 14 - April 12, 2021

Lorena Cruz Santiago // Tejidos // April 14 - May 12, 2021

Mulambö // OUT OF MANY, MUCHOS MÁS // May 14 - June 12, 2021

Marina Camargo // A matter of deletion and other disappearances // June 14 - July 12, 2021

Andrés Martínez Ruiz // 9A.84.010 // July 14 - August 12, 2021

THIS IS(NT) FOR YOU // March-May 2021 // Interloper

Who controls the narrative, who is art for, who is left on the outside looking in? THIS IS(NT) FOR YOU is a pairing of two solo exhibitions, each with an artist making work for their own community—communities alienated in different ways by language, location, and class expectations. By constructing the exhibitions using language and coded signifiers of the communities whom the work is for, each artist creates dual viewing experiences that immediately confront the viewer with a sense of (not) belonging.

It is everything you won’t understand and yet everything you need to see.

Lorena Cruz Santiago // Ñuu Savi // Interloper (Seattle) Textboard

Brock Oakley Ailes // Plastic Spoon Feeder // Interloper (Ohio) & AngelFire Website & Seattle Art Museum

Object Performance // March 2019 // Forum Gallery

Group Exhibition exploring alternative forms of documenting performance. There were 11 artists, each exhibiting a different medium as a form of documentation for performance artwork previously performed.