Silueta
Rubber Factory
New York, NY

September 6 - October 13, 2019

Silueta explores the role of the body in manual labor and the fragmentation of migrant history. The exhibition features Ronny Quevedo’s los desaparecidos series and collaborations with his mother, Noemi Quevedo, a seamstress. Using muslin, dress-maker wax paper, and clothing patterns, the works highlight her history in the garment industry while referencing Andean textiles and Incan motifs. Patterns become maps to spectral bodies, with overlapping lines converging histories, economies, and identities. Quevedo’s works oscillate between the ancient practices of indigenous people and his own personal history to present a migrant identity and lineage which is rhizomatic. As a dual-national, multi-lingual, first-generation migrant, Quevedo reimagines a past, present, and future free from the existing narrative of power.