Friday Oct 20 2023 at 6:30pm
Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank St
enter through courtyard
New York City

Alejandro De La Guerra is a multidisciplinary artist from Nicaragua who works on the aestheticization of power, collective memory, and monumental languages of public spaces. He uses performance, large-scale works, sculptures, embroideries, and relational art. He conceives of his art as a single multi-layered project driven by an exploration of violence and healing, art-activism, and relations of power in human relationships. He has participated in three Central American biennials, residencies at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation; the Artist Protection Fund; Câmera Sete Casa da Fotografia de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; and RAPACES in Central America.

Art as a social project: A series of Tik Toks, based on his own and other artists’ experiences, is an intimate look at the persistence of artistic passion.

https://alejandrodelaguerra.wordpress.com/
@alejandrofloresdelaguerra

Photo credit: Mauricio Esquivel

The presentation, a collaboration of Artistic Freedom Initiative and Westbeth Artist Safe Haven, Residency Program is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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La Caída
Large scale Sculpture
2014
3x4x2.5 Mtrs
Collection Ortíz Gurdian
Imagen credits: Jilma Estrada

Carrousel (juegos de guerra en loop)
Large scale sculpture
2017
5×4 mtrs
Collection Ortíz Gurdian
Imagen credits: Aline Barbarine

La Caída (The fall)
Video Performance
2014
Collection Ortíz Gurdian
1:33 minutes digital video
Imagen Credits: Gabriel Serra
5×4 mtrs
Collection Ortíz Gurdian
Imagen credits: Aline Barbarine