La Eterna Injusticia
Martín Wannam
September 2, 2023 - September 30, 2023
Inaugural Radicle Resident, Martín Wannam, examine’s Guatemalan’s historical, social, and political climate, focusing on freedom dreaming for the queer individual at the intersection of brownness and queer utopia. Through using the concept of iconoclasm, the aesthetic of maximalism, and the tools of photography, sculpture, and performance, Martín evaluates the systematic structures such as religion, coloniality, folklore, and white supremacy.
Martín Wannam
Martín Wannam (b. 1992, Guatemala) received his MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico (2020), a Diploma in Contemporary Photography from La Fototeca (GT) in 2016, and a BA in Graphic Design from the Universidad Rafael Landivar (GT) in 2015. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including various group and solo shows in Guatemala, the United States, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Korea.
Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at UNC Chapel Hill and part of the Fronteristxs Collective, a collective of artists fighting for migrant justice and the abolition of the prison industrial complex.
Artist’s Statement:
La Eterna Injusticia is a show that presents visually stimulating and dynamic explorations of mediums utilized to challenge and re-imagine my homeland by deconstructing public monuments and patriotic symbolism through a brown cuir lens and maximalism aesthetics as a way of freedom dreaming. Guatemala is known as the land of eternal spring due to the tropical and excellent climate we encounter daily, a juxtaposition of the political issues and human rights violations that happen daily that lead to folks living in resistance and many injustices. The work focuses on thinking and making in lo cuir, by creating work that focuses on the future rather than the past through anticolonial gestures, performance, photography, and iconoclasm to show the glimpse of cuir latinxs futurism.