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AGUA PARADA is curatorial project by Paula Castro Martinez, hosted at Rhizome DC from September 27- October 17, 2020.

Featuring artists: Natalie Ochoa, Daniel Elder, Kat Lyons, SollikeSoul, Emma Hendry, Tam-anh Nguyen, Em Aull, Chris Lloyd, Elisa Muthig, Fabiola Ching, and Natty McAlpine. 

Aiming to reproduce the feeling of sweat building on your upper lip during summer 2020. Agua Parada translated from Portuguese means still-water.
The First I heard this term was during my childhood in Brazil, when PSAs would come on the TV telling people to treat still-water for mosquitos, as they
could be carrying dengue. This exhibition reflects on what happens when stillwater sits in a tire for a hot summer week. 


For photos of the exhibition, please click here. 




AGUA PARADA is curatorial project by Paula Castro Martinez, hosted at Rhizome DC from September 27- October 17, 2020.

Featuring artists: Natalie Ochoa, Daniel Elder, Kat Lyons, SollikeSoul, Emma Hendry, Tam-anh Nguyen, Em Aull, Chris Lloyd, Elisa Muthig, Fabiola Ching, and Natty McAlpine. 

Aiming to reproduce the feeling of sweat building on your upper lip during summer 2020. Agua Parada translated from Portuguese means still-water.
The First I heard this term was during my childhood in Brazil, when PSAs would come on the TV telling people to treat still-water for mosquitos, as they
could be carrying dengue. This exhibition reflects on what happens when stillwater sits in a tire for a hot summer week. 


For photos of the exhibition, please click here. 




Hand in the Hot Wax, curated by Paula Castro Martinez and opening on December 13th 2020, dedicates time for hedonistic escape.
Featuring artists: Ana Armengod & Mae Toone, Sasha Zirulnik, Lila Tublin, Kyle Good, Jessica Udeh, Emmy, Nico Artiga Oliver,
Tara Atefi, Emma Hendry, Anahita (Ani) Bradberry, Cecilia Caldiera, Rhiannon Boyd, and Mikala Courtney Garcia Brown.

  
It’s hard to talk about hell without talking about being loved and cared for. Hell, like love, is learned about via coded language.
Images, text, and doctrines of being damned, abandoned, and deprived make up our collective ideas and beliefs about hell as
a form of punishment, be it carceral, self-doled, or eternal. Hell is what you get for not being lovable. So within a societal context
where love and care are privatized, what types of public discussions need to be had? Installed in the empty house of
Washington, D.C.’s DJ Jaq-Jill, Hand in the Hot Wax tries to tell the truth about the worlds we haven’t imagined, or remembered, yet.

For photos of the exhibition, please click here. 
Hand in the Hot Wax, curated by Paula Castro Martinez and opening on December 13th 2020, dedicates time for hedonistic escape.
Featuring artists: Ana Armengod & Mae Toone, Sasha Zirulnik, Lila Tublin, Kyle Good, Jessica Udeh, Emmy, Nico Artiga Oliver,
Tara Atefi, Emma Hendry, Anahita (Ani) Bradberry, Cecilia Caldiera, Rhiannon Boyd, and Mikala Courtney Garcia Brown.

  
It’s hard to talk about hell without talking about being loved and cared for. Hell, like love, is learned about via coded language.
Images, text, and doctrines of being damned, abandoned, and deprived make up our collective ideas and beliefs about hell as
a form of punishment, be it carceral, self-doled, or eternal. Hell is what you get for not being lovable. So within a societal context
where love and care are privatized, what types of public discussions need to be had? Installed in the empty house of
Washington, D.C.’s DJ Jaq-Jill, Hand in the Hot Wax tries to tell the truth about the worlds we haven’t imagined, or remembered, yet.

For photos of the exhibition, please click here. 
Filming From Else where was a screening held on May 7th, 2021 at The Corner DC. Featuring short films by
Ángel T, Ana Armengod (anahumanleather), Alex Szantos, Tam-anh Nguyen, and Maps Glover.
Filming From Else where was a screening held on May 7th, 2021 at The Corner DC. Featuring short films by
Ángel T, Ana Armengod (anahumanleather), Alex Szantos, Tam-anh Nguyen, and Maps Glover.
CANTANDO AL SOL was a curatorial project hosted in the backyard of Rhizome DC during May 2021,
at the peak of the Brood X life cycle. 

Featuring artists: Mayah Lovell, Vanessa Clementt, and Anisa Olufemi. 
For photos of the exhibition, please click here.
AGUA PARADA is curatorial project by Paula Castro Martinez, hosted at Rhizome DC from September 27- October 17, 2020.

Featuring artists: Natalie Ochoa, Daniel Elder, Kat Lyons, SollikeSoul, Emma Hendry, Tam-anh Nguyen, Em Aull, Chris Lloyd, Elisa Muthig, Fabiola Ching, and Natty McAlpine. 

Aiming to reproduce the feeling of sweat building on your upper lip during summer 2020. Agua Parada translated from Portuguese means still-water.
The First I heard this term was during my childhood in Brazil, when PSAs would come on the TV telling people to treat still-water for mosquitos, as they
could be carrying dengue. This exhibition reflects on what happens when stillwater sits in a tire for a hot summer week. 


For photos of the exhibition, please click here. 




Hand in the Hot Wax, curated by Paula Castro Martinez and opening on December 13th 2020, dedicates time for hedonistic escape.
Featuring artists: Ana Armengod & Mae Toone, Sasha Zirulnik, Lila Tublin, Kyle Good, Jessica Udeh, Emmy, Nico Artiga Oliver,
Tara Atefi, Emma Hendry, Anahita (Ani) Bradberry, Cecilia Caldiera, Rhiannon Boyd, and Mikala Courtney Garcia Brown.

  
It’s hard to talk about hell without talking about being loved and cared for. Hell, like love, is learned about via coded language.
Images, text, and doctrines of being damned, abandoned, and deprived make up our collective ideas and beliefs about hell as
a form of punishment, be it carceral, self-doled, or eternal. Hell is what you get for not being lovable. So within a societal context
where love and care are privatized, what types of public discussions need to be had? Installed in the empty house of
Washington, D.C.’s DJ Jaq-Jill, Hand in the Hot Wax tries to tell the truth about the worlds we haven’t imagined, or remembered, yet.

For photos of the exhibition, please click here. 
Filming From Else where was a screening held on May 7th, 2021 at The Corner DC. Featuring short films by
Ángel T, Ana Armengod (anahumanleather), Alex Szantos, Tam-anh Nguyen, and Maps Glover.
CANTANDO AL SOL was a curatorial project hosted in the backyard of Rhizome DC during May 2021,
at the peak of the Brood X life cycle. 

Featuring artists: Mayah Lovell, Vanessa Clementt, and Anisa Olufemi. 
For photos of the exhibition, please click here.