BOHIO/Ritmos de Geometrías
Borrowed from Spanish bohío, Taíno *bohi (“house, dwelling”) (From the Taíno term used by the natives of Hispaniola and other Caribbean islands, as recorded by Spanish colonizers.
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Mindy Solomon is pleased to present BOHIO/Ritmos de Geometrías Yanira Collado’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Bringing together a myriad of material-based practices, Collada explores history through the reclamation and reimagining of various media.
“I am a multimedia artist working with site-specific installations that encompass painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and audio. My practice considers concepts that allude to the restoration of histories once muted due to natural and human interventions such as the paradoxes in time and the disruption of indigenous cultures. Concurrently exploring cultural identity, colonialism, and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalization.
These perceptions are summoned through construction materials, reclaimed literary texts, wood, concrete, textiles, iron, and drywall. Materials with inherent geographic histories, processes and economies that imply varying degrees of ritual, cultural values, traditions, personalized and public memory. My work assembles a visual language that reconciles the process in which the history of this information is recorded, stored, and retrieved. I am interested in the labor inherent in these materials and the shapes taken during their transitions which conjure up transcendence and, in many ways, “fragments becoming whole” (Bell Hooks).
This spirit of inquiry in the embedded narrative of materials has led me to an expansive focus on textiles. Contextualizing their trajectories and complex but often neglected presence in the conversation of history and culture.
To study a textile is to study an artifact in context to its societal background but quite often this manner of study is undervalued or as Henry Glassie, author of Material Culture and Folklorist, states “for too long historians have left out vast realms of experience that do not fit into words at all, that can only be shaped into artifacts.” “
Collado will create an installation in the center of the room with additional works in conversation with the central element. Each image will comprise its own unique space, the surface details carefully considered. We look forward to sharing this thoughtful exhibition with an appreciative audience.
About Yanira Collado
Yanira Collado lives/works in Miami FL. Collado is A multimedia artist working with site-specific installations that encompass painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and audio. Collado’s practice considers concepts that allude to the restoration and reconciliation of histories. Art Residencies and fellowships include the Mississippi Museum of Art, Artists in Residency for the CAPE (Center for Art and Public Exchange) program, Jackson Mississippi, 2023-2024, Art Pace Artist Residency, San Antonio, Texas, 2022 and the Joan Mitchell Residency, New Orleans 2023.
In 2024 Collado placed best in show for the Orlando’s Museum of Art Florida survey, Florida Prize, and in 2022 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts to support her one person exhibition Areito: Allusions of Sacred Geometry and Diaspora, She was selected as an Ellies Creator grantee in 2019 and 2023, and in 2018 was a recipient of The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
Group shows include, To weave the sky/ Textile abstractions, El Espacio 23 (The Jorge Perez Collection), Miami, FL, 2023; Hip-Hop or Return of the BoomBap, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, NY, 2023; El Triennal, Estamos Bien, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, 2020-2021; Penumbras: sacred Geometries at Project Row Houses, Houston, TX, 2019; Monarchs at Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA North Miami, FL, Connectivity, 2019.
One person exhibitions include Areito, at the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, 2024. Transformative Elements at the Baker Museum in Naples, FL, 2023- 2024; For those who Transcend in the wind/ Ritmos para Oya, MOCA Museum, North Miami, FL; Zafa / A spell working of Temporal Geometry at the Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, 2023; Areito/Allusions of Sacred Geometry, Evanston, IL, 2022; Alchemic Chants / Reliquias Fragmentadas, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami FL, 2021; If they knew these things/ Reliquias ocultadas, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL, 2020; and Penumbras at Under the Bridge Art Space, Miami, FL, 2019.
Upcoming group and solo exhibitions in 2025, Residual Elements/Meditaciones sobre lo Fragmentado (Site-specific Installation) at Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK, Montreal, Quebec; Site-specific installation at the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL, as part of the exhibition Nuestro Vaiven; and Participating artist in On Loss and Absence at the Museum of the Arts Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
