ALPACA

adjoining little performance, art, & cinema arena.
one door south of fourteenfifteen gallery

Haunted Archives
todas las promesas se renuevan cada día
Sofía Méndez Subieta

Opening reception: Friday Nov 10, 6-9pm

Haunted Archives is a collaborative exhibition by Yelling Pillow (Sofía Méndez Subieta & Eleonora Edreva.) The exhibition ecosystem consists of two solo shows that transition into each other and expands into other forms of artistic programming. Through the mediums of textile, photography, sound, and poetry we are working with themes such as the memory of fabric, storytelling vessels, and the tension of letting go and holding on inherent to healing. Our intention is to care-fully experiment with what kind of ecosystem an exhibition can live in, enlivening the physical artwork through putting it in active and continual collaboration with audiences. Grounded in gathering, community, and celebration, the exhibition programming is not an afterthought, but rather a central component of our vision, and will include a mending circle, a Yelling Pillow workshop, and a performance-based dinner. Through this experimental exhibition, we hope to playfully redefine what sharing artistic space can look and feel like, inviting greater interconnectedness between and among artists, artwork, and audience.

buenos dias

guided by the embodied memory of material and grounded in ritual, my art practice is a form of responsible remembering (and therefore imagining.) as such, archives act as containers that are a continuous site of study and re-configuration. 

language behaves as a veil or a layer, sometimes revealing and sometimes concealing, but always pointing at the agency/power hidden in the act of translation. 

working with materials both tangible and intangible such as voice recordings, photographic data, emotional and collective inheritances, used clothes, bracelets, bedding, rings, and earrings, I engage with somatic processes of healing,  protection, release, and nourishment. I often turn to needlework, digital collaging and patchwork as forms which allow for repeated care, honest nuance, nonlinear narratives and integral contradiction.

Sofía Méndez Subieta is an interdisciplinary artist from Cochabamba, Bolivia. She graduated from Grinnell College with a BA in Philosophy and Studio Art in 2019 and is currently pursuing an MFA in the Photography Area at the University of New Mexico. Mendez’ work has been published by Engaging Collections & The Grinnell Review as well as exhibited both nationally and internationally. She was an artist- in-residence at the Wormfarm Institute in 2020, 2022, and 2023 and a SITE Scholar in 2022. Méndez is one half of the collaborative project Yelling Pillow.

hago la promesa de luchar

querido sentimientos mas puros