Isthmic Imaginaries explores the cultural, political, and creative experiences of Central Americans.
The works illuminate the lived realities of Central Americans forging cultural imaginaries across distance. By bringing together sound, performance, visual art and poetry interventions, the project examines how artists engage with memory in ways that challenge nation-state narratives.
Anchored in the metaphor of the isthmus, a narrow landmass, the exhibition reimagines Central America not only as a geographic and historical region but as a space of in-betweenness, rupture, and possibility.
Through creative practice, Isthmic Imaginaries interrogates how Central Americans embody and transform memory, and how identities are reconfigured through displacement, colonial interruption, and local entanglements.
The works are in Nawat/Náhuat, Mayan Q’anjob’al, Māori, Spanish, Spanglish, and English.
Curated by
Glenda Mejía and Tania Cañas
Artists
- • Archiving the Present
- • Dany Ruiz
- • Diego Villalta
- • Juan Rodríguez Sandoval
- • Leonel Alvarado
- • Regina José Galindo
- • Rómulo Castro García
- • The Fire Theory Collective
- • Sabino Esteban Francisco
- • Sara Pérez