Soft Sculptures for Hard Politics with Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio
Sat, June 22, 2024
11 am–3 pm
Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 20- August 11, 2024). Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Paloma Blanca Deja Volar / White Dove Let Us Fly, 2024. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
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Floor 3, Theater
Open to all ages
Visitors of all ages are invited to join 2024 Whitney Biennial artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio for a hands-on artmaking workshop. Create freeform soft sculptures that reflect Aparicio’s focus on the value of rest and relaxation as part of the work of political activism. Inspired by his grandmother’s practice of making pillows and dolls out from the clothing that circulated to Central America from the U.S., we’ll experiment with shape and materials using recycled textiles in combination with kapok—a naturally occurring fiber that grows on the ceiba tree, which is revered throughout Central America. Like Aparicio’s sculpture in the Biennial, this project explores the many roles trees and their byproducts can play within a community, from healing saps and resins to the dispersal of knowledge and legacies through pollen and seeds.
