Convulsiones Planetarias / Planetary Convulsions

Convulsiones Planetarias / Planetary Convulsions is the first U.S. solo institutional exhibition by Mexico City and Oaxaca-based artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo, whose video and sculptural works offer a meditation on life through different knowledge systems, entangling human and non-human sentience.

Rincón Gallardo’s oneiric fabrication of decolonial narratives of desire, dissidence, and resilience is expanded through the accompanying public program with transmedia storyteller Camila Marambio.

Naomi Rincón Gallardo is a research, performance, and video artist who synthesizes tech, cuir (rather than queer), pop, and kitsch culture in her work. Through a framework that centers decolonial feminisms and cuir perspectives, her work fabricates narratives of desire, dissidence, and resilience based on Mesoamerican mythologies. Rincón Gallardo’s fables are often set against a backdrop of contemporary processes of dispossession, as well as heteropatriarchal and extractive violence in neo-colonial contexts. In her practice, Rincón Gallardo integrates her interests in speculative fiction, music videos, theatrical games, vernacular festivities, and the manual production of props and costumes. She has been a member of the cuir-feminist collective Invasorix since 2013.