The Sixth Man
James Fuentes
New York, NY

March 13 - April 7, 2019

The Sixth Man brings together selections from Ronny Quevedo’s ongoing series Every Measure of Zero. This series calls into question the point of origin as an unfixed position. Alluding to questions of identity, mapping, and the cosmos, these works were developed by a strict material process of embossing, transferring dress maker’s wax paper by heat, and metal leafing. Within these limitations, Quevedo generates a range of surfaces and colors to illuminate the invisibility and transformations of the manual labor that relates to his mother’s career as a seamstress. Through his research in American indigenous and pre-Columbian visual language, he draws a connection between textiles and interstellar space, resulting in geometric abstractions and mathematical equations.