04/26/2026
๐ฅ๐๐ฅ๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ง๐ฅ We want to introduce you to our next artist for our upcoming solo exhibitionย ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ฅ๐๐ฃ, Josuรฉ Morales Urbina. Please join us for the opening reception on May 9 from 7-9pm to see how Josuรฉ Morales Urbina transforms our small gallery!
From the artist: I was born in Guatemala and have lived throughout the United States since my twenties, yet I have never fully belonged in either place. In the United States, I am asked to account for my origins. Within Latin American communities, I remain a minority within a minority. When I return to Guatemala, my accent, my clothing, and my lived experience mark me as different. I have become a hidden immigrant, someone who seems to belong but does not. Art becomes the place where I build a sense of home.
Foreignness and the impermanence of memory shape the installations I create, which emerge from fragments of lived experience and materials that evoke the familiar, the perishable, and the intimate. Informed by Homi K. Bhabhaโs notion of the Third Space, my practice explores the in-between condition where identity is negotiated, and hybridity becomes both tension and creation. Process-oriented and meditative, my Third Culture Kid work discovers yet another Third Space through repetition, where hand and mind converge and the act of making becomes a site of belonging.
I give everyday materials a sense of protagonism, allowing them to shape the work through their own tensions, fragilities, and transformations. I use edible and biodegradable elements such as honey, milk, mandarin peels, baguettes, coffee, and plantain chips. These materials carry domestic associations and cultural histories, and within my installations they also seek to adjust to the newly created environment, mimicking my interest in displacement and adaptation. A memory evokes a material, and the material guides the work.
Slide 1: portrait of artist; 2-3 โConnective Threadsโ at curated by ; 4-6 โIntercisesโ solo show at ; 7-8 โQualia Seriesโ and โFOX03โ in progress for ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ฅ๐๐ฃ
