Society of the Smokey Mirror collaborative piece with BWP Artists at SOMArts
Dreams Emerging, Beyond Resilience: Día de Los Muertos 2021
Dedicated to Yolanda Lopez, Elizabeth ‘Betita’ Martinez,
Moira Roth, Betty Segal, and Ronnie Goodman
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Now in its 22nd year, SOMArts’ annual Día de Los Muertos exhibition is one of the most internationally diverse Day of the Dead celebrations in the United States. Founded by beloved San Francisco artist and curator René Yañez, Día de Los Muertos at SOMArts merges traditional altars with contemporary installations, continuing to be a multigenerational gathering of remembrance while affirming the importance of arts & culture in shaping our worlds.
Curated by Rio Yanez and Carolina Quintanilla, Dreams Emerging, Beyond Resilience: Dia de Los Muertos 2021 can be viewed in person Saturday, October 9–Friday, November 5 with the Virtual Gallery launching Saturday, October 9. Artists honor how grieving rituals have shifted in response to the global pandemic. The exhibition reflects on how the past year has transformed our visions of connection, freedom, and healing. After a year of collective isolation and survival, what are we longing for? What becomes possible when we are able to imagine futures beyond resilience?
If the hive is not the sweetness—The Society of the Smokey Mirror Collaborative Altar Installation
In this time of isolation, we long for the sweetness of immersive creativity with friends. We aim to provide an experience of sensory delight. As artists and laborers, we aim to become beelike in industriousness and skill to build something sweet. We dream a future of Indigenous, Black, trans, queer, immigrant, disabled, displaced, poor artists transmuting generations of grief and pain and trauma into honey, a golden nectar to nourish seven generations still to come. Honey and the hive are tangible examples of collective work and the sticky, buzzing messiness it takes to make beautiful, golden honey.
“If the hive is not the sweetness” is our way of transmuting a year and a half’s worth of our collected pain, isolation, fear, trauma, death, illness, and loneliness into a communal, participatory altar that revels in the chaos of all returning to the hive and the ensuing messiness of healing and liberation.
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