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Raúl de Nieves: The Treasure House of Memory

Raúl de Nieves: The Treasure House of Memory

Raúl de Nieves: The Treasure House of Memory

Raúl de Nieves is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist, performer, and musician whose multifaceted practice ranges from stained-glass-style narrative paintings to animated performances, to densely adorned figurative sculptures encrusted with bangles, beads, bells, sequins, and other homespun materials. These opulent, joyful sculptures reference traditional costumes in Mexican culture and modes of dress from drag, ballroom, and queer club cultures, while also evoking religious processional attire and the outfits worn by circus performers. All of his works share a distinctive visual language that draws from Mexican craft traditions, religious iconography, mythology, and folktales to explore the transformational possibilities of adornment and the mutability of sexuality and identity. For the ICA, de Nieves is creating a body of interconnected works rooted in memory and exploring themes of personal transformation. The Treasure House of Memory expands the artist’s inventive adaptation of iconographic traditions inherited from the past through vibrant amalgamations of form and material rendered in an energetic and accessible visual language.

Thu & Fri 10 am – 9 pm

Sat- Sun / Tue – Wed 10 am – 5 pm

Monday closed

The Institute of Contemporary Art

25 Harbor Shore Drive

Boston

https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/ra%C3%BAl-de-nieves-treasure-house-memory

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