Installation view of Patricia Domínguez: Planetary Tears, 2020. Three-channel HD video, pedestal, 3-D hologram, digital prints, watercolor on paper, Krylon Make-It-Stone spray paint, roses, found marble vases and stools from Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall, reflective beads, ginger, lavender, garlic, turmeric, oranges, salt, cinnamon, lentils, bay leaves, and house paint. Photo by Ethan Browning
Installation view of Patricia Domínguez: Planetary Tears, 2020. Photo by Ethan Browning
Left: Technologies of Enchantment, 2019, ink on newsprint. Published by Gasworks, London. Right: Drones: Deadlines, 2019. Watercolour on paper in artist’s frame, 42 x 33 cm. Photo by Ethan Browning
Drones: Deadlines, 2019. Watercolour on paper in artist’s frame, 42 x 33 cm. Photo by Arecis Tiburcio Zane
Installation view of Patricia Domínguez: Planetary Tears (detail), 2020. Photo by Arecis Tiburcio Zane
Installation view of Patricia Domínguez: Planetary Tears (detail), 2020. Photo by Arecis Tiburcio Zane
Installation view of Patricia Domínguez: Planetary Tears (detail), 2020. Photo by Arecis Tiburcio Zane
Still from Eyes of Plants, 2019. 4K video, color, audio, 24:54 min. Commissioned by Gasworks
Still from Eyes of Plants, 2019. 4K video, color, audio, 24:54 min. Commissioned by Gasworks
Still from Eyes of Plants, 2019. 4K video, color, audio, 24:54 min. Commissioned by Gasworks
Technologies of Enchantment, 2019. PDF. Published by Gasworks
Installation view of Patricia Domínguez: Planetary Tears (detail), 2020. Photo by Ethan Browning
Patricia Domíguez: Planetary Tears is the artist's first solo installation in New York City. Celebrated for her imaginative multimedia projects that meld techno-futurist imagery with pre-Columbian symbolism, Chilean artist Patricia Domínguez will present an adapted version of
Eyes of Plants, her recent three-channel video originally commissioned for Gasworks in London, which will be presented alongside examples of the artist's prints, as well as a site-specific wall painting.
Domínguez's mesmerizing video, flanked on either side by monitors that display scans of the artist's animated green irises, yokes viewers through a journey of colonialism and indigenous cosmology. The triptych of screens in the Yeh Art Gallery creates a chapel-like setting for viewers of the Eyes of Plants. The video explores the history of healing with roses, intersecting with mestizo rituals: roses were first transported to Latin America by European settlers, and through the influence of the Catholic church acquired a curative power.
