Hoesy Corona: Climate Immigrants
January 3 – March 2, 2024
Reception: January 11, 5-7pm
Artist Talk: February 8, 5:30-6:30pm
Hoesy Corona is a Queer Latinx artist who creates multidisciplinary art spanning installation, sculpture, textile, and performance. His practice delves into pressing issues of our time, exploring topics such as climate crisis, queerness, immigration, and race. Corona approaches these poignant subjects by creating fabulated narratives highlighting the complex relationship between humans and the environment.
Climate Immigrants features a selection of work from Corona’s “Climate Ponchos” series. This ongoing body of work depicts ambiguous silhouettes moving through space using the archetype of the traveler. Each poncho depicts anonymous figures traversing through lush botanicals, coastal shores, and mountainscapes, while the extent or reasoning for their passage is undisclosed. Upon closer examination, each traveler is seen carrying personal belongings via suitcases and backpacks as they navigate through and adapt to the dilemma of climate-induced global migration. While each of Corona’s climate ponchos narrates individual stories of transit, they collectively conceptualize a larger account of climate-triggered journeying. Corona intentionally uses silhouettes to obscure identity and intentions, inviting the viewer to see themselves in each work and bear witness to the pursuit of a better life.
