Join us this Saturday, July 4th at 9am pst / 11am cst on Reimagine.site for the premier of Edgar Fabián Frías’ video 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘦
Followed by a conversation between Edgar and Eva Mayhabal.
"Repurposing Fugue" explores themes of liminality, transitional spaces, smuggling, border crossing, transgression, and queerness. Edgar Fabián Frías aims to transmit smuggled information to the viewer through sound interspersing with abstract imagery, performative gestures, and language channeled through them.
2020
Edgar Fabián Frías is a nonbinary, queer, indigenous (Wixárika) and Latinx multidisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and psychotherapist. They work in photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other emergent genres.For 2019/2020, Frías is a visual arts fellow at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship in Tulsa, Oklahoma and a Research Fellow for the Oklahoma Center for The Humanities’ Research Seminar on Play. Recent exhibitions include “Nierika : Santuario Somático” at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, Oregon and “Perpetual Flowering” at the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles, California. Their work has been exhibited at Human Resources (Los Angeles, CA), Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA), SOMArts (San Francisco, CA), ESMoA (El Segundo, CA), Disjecta (Portland, OR), Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa, OK), Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), Performance is Alive (New York, NY), and ArtBo (Bogotá, Colombia), among others.
Eva Mayhabal Davis (b. Toluca, Mexico) has curated exhibitions at BronxArtSpace, En Foco, Expressiones Cultural Center, MECA International Art Fair, Photoville NY, Queens Museum, Smack Mellon, and Ray Gallery. She is a Co-Director at Transmitter, a collaborative curatorial initiative. Based in New York City, she works with artists and creatives in the production of exhibitions, texts, and events. Her personal immigrant narrative drives her work in advocacy to advance equity and social justice values through the arts and culture. This series is made possible by the generous support of #tulsaartistfellowship