Sofía Córdova “A las mil maravillas / In the Thousand Wonders”
Kate Werble Gallery
[Image: Sofía Córdova, photographs from the series De la nada (Out of Nowhere) and FRUTA PRIETA, documenting objects featured in dawn_chorus ii: el niagra en bicicleta (2018)]
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Sofía Córdova’s first exhibition at this gallery, A las mil maravillas / In the Thousand Wonders, introduces her vision of an imminent climate-induced apocalypse through video, sound, sculpture, and photography. By shortening the distance between speculation and documentation, Córdova creates a poignant, grounding response to the problem of the future.
The central work in the exhibition is a long form two-channel video, dawn_chorus ii: el niagra en bicicleta, filmed by Córdova in her native Puerto Rico over the last two years. Returning to the island following Hurricane Maria, Córdova completed the work by incorporating interviews she conducted with family and friends alongside records culled from her late grandfather’s salsa collection.
This exhibition, also the artist’s first in New York, continues Córdova’s ongoing interest in science fiction as a tool for survival. She reimagines tropes of ecological collapse by looking to Afro-Caribbean syncretic religions and dance music as diasporic documents of resilience, tethering both past and present to a future still in the making.
Sofía Córdova (USA, b. 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico) received her BFA from St. John’s University and her MFA from California College of the Arts. Córdova has held solo exhibitions at Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming 2018); ASU Art Museum Project Space, Tempe, AZ (2017); City Limits Gallery, Oakland, CA (2017); Pro Arts, Oakland, CA (2015); Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA (2014); and PlaySpace Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2011). Her work has been exhibited at venues including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Mills College Museum of Art, Oakland, CA; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY; MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA; Sonoma Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA; and the International Center for Photography, New York, NY. She currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.
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Schedule
from October 09, 2018 to November 10, 2018
Opening Reception on 2018-10-09 from 18:00 to 20:00