October 15 - 25, 2021

Opening: October 16, 4 - 7 PM

October 23, 3 PM

Women reading Women with:

Writers:

• Alinaluz Santiago
• Yaissa Jiménez
• Yarisa Colon Torres

JVS Project Space

181 E 108th St, NYC

The Heroines series is an intertextuality game with characters created by fiction and poetry writers.

In the tableaus that make up the Heroínas series, the circle works as the unifying compositional axis. Faces framed in a circumference, such as the Pantocrator, or the angelic aura of certain cultures, therefore, in addition to heroism, the connotation refers to a particular hagiography: they are martyrs. As a stele of the experiential chronology, not only is the face of incisive look and the Afro hair depicted within the circular shape, there also appear elements for the deconstruction of the character: a snake, a map of the Old Continent, a knife, a pregnant woman, a ring, etc. The playfulness calls for a meeting with the writers whose literary fiction works inspired the characters of pictorial fiction, all of them women. In Ezequiel Taveras’ esthetic configuration there exists a distinctive seal, and that demonstrates his talent as a draughtsman: the strength, steadiness, and fierceness of the gaze.

Fernando Berroa

This Program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps.