Join us for an afternoon with a gallery tour of IMPENDING BEAUTY and COMMON FREQUENCIES at BioBAT Project Space in Brooklyn Army Terminal. This will be followed by our tea and conversation with Tatiana Aricha, artist of IMPENDING BEAUTY. The closing performance of the Common Frequencies exhibition - Household Requiem is happening at 3pm & 4pm at the Bio BAT Art Space Dark Space. No separate RSVP is required.
Limited spots for tour and tea with Tatiana Arocha.
Impending Beauty by Tatiana Aricha
Tatiana Arocha. Photo by Peter Ross
Tatiana Arocha (1974) is a New York-born Colombian artist, living in Brooklyn on Lenape ancestral lands. Her art practice explores intimacy between people and land, rooted in personal memory and her immigrant experience, and centers on community through public art interventions and transdisciplinary knowledge exchange. Most often, Arocha’s works vivify and reconstruct the vulnerable tropical forests of her homeland, confronting the ecological, emotional, and cultural loss caused by extractive economies and colonial practices. In weaving together historical and contemporary technologies, Arocha’s unconventional process and craft expresses her layered relationship with nature and cultural transformation.
She has held residencies at The Wassaic Project, LABverde, Centro Selva, Arquetopia, and Zea Mays Printmaking. Arocha has received funding from The Sustainable Arts Foundation and Brooklyn Arts Council.
Solo exhibitions include Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, Queens Botanical Garden, and site-specific installations at BRIC, Brookfield Place/Winter Garden, MTA Arts, Goethe-Institut Kolumbien, and Hilton Bogota Corferias. She has participated in group exhibitions at Smack Mellon, Wave Hill, BRIC, The Wassaic Project, ArtBridge, KODALab, and The Clemente.
Arocha studied illustration and graphic design in Bogotá, Colombia. From 2000-2008, she was owner/curator of Servicio Ejecutivo, a digital-turned-physical gallery in Brooklyn.
Marcela Armas, Tsinamekuta, 2016-2020 Modified turntable, electronics Photo by Marcela Armas
Dark Space of Common Frequencies
Common Frequencies brings together a group of cross-disciplinary Mexican artists whose work meets at the intersection of art and science, and explores the relationship between these two disciplines through sound, urban ecology, language, and the construction of symbolic imageries.
In the midst of a time that seems to be more and more divided, this group of artists investigate and generate several connections that prove that union, collaboration and connectivity are more present than ever. They show that we are not an independent species, but rather dependent and inter-connected with every single being on the planet.
In the exhibition, these interconnections are made evident through the form of sonic landscapes— languages that are easier to identify as commons, as something we can relate to and use our response ability in return.
Household Requiem was composed in response to the pandemic, and the lives that have been lost since 2020. It brings together the inner and external sounds of the lockdown in a composition about grief and unity.
Household Requiem is a collaboration between Mexican artists Tania Candiani and composer Rogelio Sosa with the Grace Chorale Brooklyn, Jason Asbury, Music Director, to be presented in the framework of the Common Frequencies Exhibition at BioBAT Art Space in Brooklyn.
This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).