Join us on Saturday, July 13th at 6 pm for the Land of Dual 11 performance by Natalia Villanueva. In this performance the artist, alongside seven co-performers, dipped bricks of tissue paper into a pool of water in a repetitive ritual procession, pulling dye from the material, canning the dye, and remolding the wet tissue paper into small, compressed bricks. The resultant jars of dye and compressed bricks are displayed on a wooden shelf. This new work demonstrates the abundant potential of the everyday, characterizing ways simple actions can exert multidimensional transformations.

“This work indexes a process of intensive interaction with a quotidian material: tissue paper, a secondary accessory, usually accompanying gifts, and discarded after a single use. In an accumulative and repetitive procession, Villanueva Linares massages an enduring softness into this material, activating its fibers and making it function as a stable fabric for asserting the monumental. This generous…