FRANCISCO GONZÁLEZ CASTRO: DOES NOT SAY «I», BUT DOES «I»: BODIES, LIMITS & TRANSGRESSIONS
2024-04-13 - 2024-06-09 | Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States
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FRANCISCO GONZÁLEZ CASTRO: DOES NOT SAY «I», BUT DOES «I»: BODIES, LIMITS & TRANSGRESSIONS
APRIL 13 – JUNE 8, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, APRIL 13

Members Preview 5 – 6 pm
Artist Talk 6 – 6:30 pm
Public Reception 6 – 8 pm

Mixing genres of video, performance, and drawing, Francisco González Castro’s work examines problems related to territorial borders, social inequalities, and bodily transgressions. The project title refers to German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) existentialist quote that begins, “The body is a great intelligence,” (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883), and infers that the human body and soul are one. This title is illuminated in Castro’s own artistic philosophy, which confronts the body, people who reject the body, and how the body is approached as subject and identity. Castro’s personal bodily transgressions and tests of endurance are vehicles for his discourse about geographic landscapes and political borders. It is within this integration of life-and-art, body-and-spirit, that we intend to immerse the audience in this physically ambitious and psychologically profound exhibition by Castro at Coconino Center for the Arts.

FREDERICA HALL: One Blood at the Precipice
2024-04-13 - 2024-06-09
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FREDERICA HALL: ONE BLOOD AT THE PRECIPICE
April 13 – June 8, 2024 in the Project Gallery
Performance: Mysterious Orphic Songs of Whales, April 13, 6 pm
Artist Talk: June 6, 6:30 pm

Flagstaff artist Frederica Hall engages a multi-disciplinary approach to visual arts and performance art, informed by reflections on challenging matters of present times.

“As a creative I look for an inquiry that is relevant to myself and the state of the world, something that can engage me deeply. In 2000 I had the opportunity to go to Australia, camping and painting for a few months, I went to Uluru and met the grandson of the head of the Uluru tribe and spent a day following him around Uluru stopping at sacred sites where he traditional could share some ancient stories with me and my husband. His stories taught me that there is only ‘One Blood’ between all species, and that we are all woven together in this living breath of the creator. Every being is equally essential in this great dream time tapestry.”
