Opening Reception: Fabrizzio Subia: Ano Nuevo (2023) at the International Museum of Surgical Science
February 24, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Description below provided by artist Fabrizzio Subia:
"How do we perform grief?
On the last day of the year, the Ecuadorian New Year celebration sees its citizens erecting bonfires to collectively burn effigies made of discarded clothes, wood shavings, and paper maché. These Año Viejos symbolize the end of the year that is to be destroyed, and on their ashes to begin a new day. The exact history of the Año Viejos has been lost to time and colonization. What remains of our culture is an embodied knowledge, a series of rituals that persist without written history.
The videos on view are documentation from the endurance performance that took place in the coastal town of Playas, Ecuador. The performance, named Año Nuevo (2023), saw me return to my ancestral lands. There, I burned one Año Viejo every hour for 24 consecutive hours. Through this act which recalled my childhood, I embody the memories of those left behind, the land I left and continue to grieve, the labor of grief, and the passage of time."
To learn more about this event, click here.
"How do we perform grief?
On the last day of the year, the Ecuadorian New Year celebration sees its citizens erecting bonfires to collectively burn effigies made of discarded clothes, wood shavings, and paper maché. These Año Viejos symbolize the end of the year that is to be destroyed, and on their ashes to begin a new day. The exact history of the Año Viejos has been lost to time and colonization. What remains of our culture is an embodied knowledge, a series of rituals that persist without written history.
The videos on view are documentation from the endurance performance that took place in the coastal town of Playas, Ecuador. The performance, named Año Nuevo (2023), saw me return to my ancestral lands. There, I burned one Año Viejo every hour for 24 consecutive hours. Through this act which recalled my childhood, I embody the memories of those left behind, the land I left and continue to grieve, the labor of grief, and the passage of time."
To learn more about this event, click here.
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Location
International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60610 RSVP
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