Ranging in diverse media from painting, photography, works on paper, sculpture, and moving images, Xican-a.o.x. Body foregrounds the body as a site to explore political agency and imagination, artistic investigation, decolonization, and alternative forms of affectivity and community as linked to Chicano experiences. The exhibition serves as the first group exhibition to celebrate Xicanx artists working conceptually, experimentally, and or with a performative focus. The term, Xicanx, is inclusive of the Indigenous and colonized people of Mexican descent as well as the people who may originate from Central and South American nations.
Xican-a.o.x. Body features multidisciplinary works from the late 1960s to the present, convoluting the common understanding of Xicanx art and culture and highlighting the complex nature of varying visual practices. The exhibition emerges at the intersection of experimental artistic practices and the notion of the Brown body as articulated in the context of Xicanisma—a vital and inclusive concept developed in the 1990s that calls for self-determination of ethnic, political, and cultural identities through greater acknowledgment of Indigenous roots, intersectional identities, and feminism. While the multiplicity inherent in this term is central to the project’s organizing concept, the exhibition proudly includes the work of artists who identify in myriad ways—including Mexican American, Chicana/o, Xicanx, Indigenous, Latinx, Black, and Brown.
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