Felipe Baeza: Made Into Being

8 September - 9 October 2022

Overview

The works on view in Baeza's latest exhibition, Made Into Being, are the fruits of that activity of brown study: patiently scraping, adding, cutting, painting, subtracting, and scraping again. In the work that gives the exhibit its title, Made into Being, a centaur made of ink, glitter, twine, graphite, acrylic, and cut paper beckons you into the fiery furnace from which his shadow is cast. His face is a thing of beauty, a stained-glass saint for a future religion in which we are queer, post-human, and once again wild. Here we are made witness to the history of the body as a palimpsest, flesh as the sum of all the violence we call genocide, colonization, mestizaje, and magic. - Tavia Nyong'o