Anita

2025

48 x 40 inches

Oil paint on canvas

Coyote Dance

July 8 - August 29, 2025
Centro Cultural de España en El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador

Esta muestra colectiva cuenta con las voces de Daisy Margarita, Denisse Griselda Reyes, Erick Benítez, John Rivas y Studio Lenca, cinco artistas atravesados por la migración propia o de sus familias salvadoreñas hacia otros países. Sus propuestas visuales en «Coyote Dance, con la curaduría de Antonio Romero, se articulan desde lenguajes diversos, y en algunos casos entrelazados, como la pintura, la escultura, la fotografía y el audiovisual.

La exposición se enraíza en la relación conflictiva con el concepto de país. Y, con este punto de partida, transita entre la utopía y el territorio para caminar hacia la reconstrucción identitaria desde la memoria y las historias contadas. Las obras de este grupo de artistas abordan la relación de semejanza que se reafirma en la distancia y la cercanía a la vez porque, como herida abierta, se relame y reinventa y, así, aporta cambios sustanciales a la mirada del territorio y a la reconfiguración de sus sombras.

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This group exhibition features the voices of Daisy Margarita, Denisse Griselda Reyes, Erick Benítez, John Rivas, and Studio Lenca, five artists who have each been impacted by their own migration or that of their Salvadoran families to other countries. Their visual proposals in "Coyote Dance," curated by Antonio Romero, are articulated through diverse, and in some cases intertwined, languages, such as painting, sculpture, photography, and audiovisual media.

The exhibition is rooted in the conflictive relationship with the concept of country. And, with this starting point, it transits between utopia and territory to move toward the reconstruction of identity through memory and the stories told. The works of this group of artists address the relationship of similarity that is reaffirmed by distance and closeness simultaneously because, like an open wound, it reclaims and reinvents itself, thus bringing substantial changes to the way we view the territory and the reconfiguration of its shadows.

Teresita, Mom's Dreams, and Sin Eater

Museo Forma, San Salvador, El Salvador
January 17 - 31, 2025
curated by Patricio Majano from YES Contemporary

2024
Teresita: Oil paint on canvas, 60 x 40 inches
Mom’s Dreams, 02:24, sizes variable, continuous loop, sound, archival home videos, found footage
Sin Eater, 3D printed mask, Two .96” OLED screens, digitized Hi-8 tapes, no sound, loop, 5.5 x 6.25 inches

Artists: Aria XYX, Ana Lilian Henríquez, Carlos Cañas, Carmen Elena Trigueros, Dominga Herrera, Elmer Guevara, Julia Díaz, Mauricio Kabistán, Mauricio Esquivel, Mayra Barraza, Osvaldo Castillo, Simón Vega, Sofía Baussan, Studio Lenca, Teresa Cruz, Victor Cruz & Hugo Portillo, Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, and Museo de Arte Popular.

Watching Home Videos and Ultrasound

Portals curated by Tracy Fenix
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
October 23 - February 2025

2023
LED LCD monitors in black wooden boxes, black and white digitized Hi-8 tapes, continuous loop, no sound

Reyes is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker who transforms familial and generational narratives through documentation and fictional portrayals, often rooted in themes of home, diasporic longing, and performative self-depiction. In presenting early digitized works, Reyes reveals portals to experiences of birth, youth, and the intensity of self-narrated public gaze.
-Tracy Fenix