La Llorona Unfabled: Stories to (Re)tell To Little Girls
Opening reception: Saturday, February 12 – 7:30pm
Artist talk with all exhibition artists: Saturday, February 12 – 2-4pm
Exhibition runs through Saturday, April 16
Galeria de la Raza • 2857 24th Street, San Francisco
Galeria de la Raza is excited to announce the first exhibition of 2011: La Llorona Unfabled: Stories to (Re)tell To Little Girls. Comprising drawings, video-based installations, and public art projects, the exhibition uses the Mexican folktale of La Llorona (“the wailing/weeping woman”) as its departure point to explore issues of immigration, female sexuality, and cultural paradigms. Lead artist Ana Teresa Fernandez reconfigures the metaphorical imagery of this colonial-era legend in which a poor Mexican woman, abandoned by her noble husband, drowns her children and herself out of grief. As punishment, her spirit is condemned to wander eternally, haunting riverbanks at night searching for her lost children.
In addition to Fernandez’s work, artists Monica Enriquez-Enriquez, Geraldine Lozano, Rosario Sotelo, and Tanya Vlach present a series of video-based projects that examine how Latina immigrants view themselves and that speak to the feelings of nostalgia, loss, personal transformation and renewal associated with the migrant experience.
This project is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Creative Work Fund.