Main Space

Angélica Maria Millán Lozano, Recovecos: De Dorado a Sol
July 8th - August 6th, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 8th, 5-8 pm EST

Brooklyn, NY (July 8th, 2023) — Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present Recovecos: De Dorado a Sol, a solo exhibition in The Main Space by the New York-based artist Angélica Maria Millán Lozano curated by artist and OyG co-director Sabrina Haertig Gonzalez. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, July 8th, from 5 to 8 pm. The show will be open to the public through August 6th, 2023.

Please join us for a sound activation by the artist and her brother Dmlln at 6 pm.

Exhibition Synopsis: 
Inspired by a 2001 photograph capturing the Millán Lozano family's arrival at Orlando's MCO Airport, Recovecos: De Dorado a Sol, meaning "Twists and turns from Dorado (Bogotá's airport El Dorado) to the sun (Florida)," serves as an autobiographical exploración of the artist's migrant journey, a state of perpetual arrival. 

Recovecos: De Dorado a Sol delves into fragmentos de la memoria embodied by the complication of image-transferred Google Earth screenshots and vintage photographs. The artist collaborated with her brother Daniel AKA Dmlln to compose a soundscape made of family interviews, poetry, and era-specific songs. Through non-linear storytelling, slang, teen-age angst, familiarity, distancia, and cultural identity shaped by varying appetites for nostalgia- the artwork celebrates the profound musical influences de los 90s y early 2000s, including Shakira's 1998 album "Dónde Están los Ladrones?" 

Recovecos: De Dorado a Sol marks the inaugural installment of a comprehensive series that examines the artist's family history, as well as the cultural and political influencias that shaped their navigation through migración and displacement adentro y afuera de Colombia impacted by American imperialism.

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Artist Bios: 

Angélica Maria Millán Lozano is an artist from Bogotá, Colombia, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Using distressed fabrics, she creates abstract and figurative compositions that question the social injustices affecting migrant families. She focuses specifically on Latinas at home. In response to her home country’s political unrest, Millán Lozano uses her experiences to explore themes of familiarity, absurdity, foreignness, and fear. Millán Lozano chooses the fabrics for her work very carefully – opting for textiles that tell stories of resilience. The pre-worn fabrics reveal evidence of distress, wear and tear, deconstruction, and reconstruction. The artist emphasizes that these mediums can carry narratives of pain – which is fitting given that they often represent the bodies of suffering Latin American Women. Millán Lozano also selected fabric as her medium to return agency and meaning to a material often reduced to “women’s work” in Latinx households. 

Sabrina Haertig Gonzalez is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, scheme, and text. Her practice of augmenting and collapsing ontological divides between bodies, objects, and products through their materiality and consumption looks to locate perverse, absurd phenomena within the commercial economy. She hopes to encourage an imaginative capacity for post-colonial, post-apocalyptic reform by defamiliarizing our conditioned lexicon for exchange and foregrounding narratives of the extracted. As of late, she is experimenting with the potential of facilitating co-creation and physical activation through hybridized sculptural intervention around female and working-class labor. Could a work manifest sovereignty by heightening one’s awareness of the exhaustive economy through bodily implication?