Check the temperature. Hemma är wherever me da la regalada gana!

Evenemang

Datum: lördag 24 maj 2025

Tid: 15.00 – 17.00

Plats: Konsthall C, Cigarrvägen 14 i Hökarängen

"Hemma är wherever me da la regalada gana!" - "Home is wherever I goddamn feel like it! är en ljudkonstintervention av Rossana Mercado-Rojas. En fortsättning på Home is Where the Heart is (2019). I verket ingår ett spoken word av Princess Jiménez Beltré. (La Dekoloniala org). Curerat av Noël Platts, som del av ett examensarbete vid masterprogrammet i Curating Art vid Stockholms universitet.

Illustration med texten Check the temperature. Hemma är wherever me da la regalada gana!

The title blends three -European- languages the artist currently navigates by choice or necessity. Loosely translated, the phrase in Abya Yala Spanish, “Home is wherever I goddamn feel like it!” becomes an empowering statement, a playful act of refusal.

Using a combination of sound, installation, and image projection, Mercado-Rojas creates a space where individuals are invited to feel at home – at least temporarily. Her practice reclaims agency by filling the space with empowering visual and auditory expressions drawn from her own Andean cultural practices and experiences, creating new symbols from the old while preserving their essence. People can connect through a range of sensory and symbolic elements: sound, color, symbols, words, tone, and repetition – evoking the rhythm of a mantra, a prayer, or a call. These elements create a shared emotional and spiritual atmosphere. Fabrics and objects of personal significance – such as a handwoven textile from the artist’s great-grandmother, or a glass printed with her grandfather’s face and name, a memento from his passing – are arranged in altar-like structures that evoke ritual-like experiences.

With participants at its core, the work summons energy to consecrate the space as a sanctuary – where community is felt, not forced, and where the relentless machinery of coloniality is held at bay. Shaped by a specific political and social context, the work challenges traditional notions of what it means to belong somewhere.

Internationellt masterprogram i curating, med inriktning mot konst, management och juridik

Utbildningen, för utställningsskapande framför allt inom konstområdet, genomförs i samarbete mellan Institutionen för kultur och estetik vid Stockholms universitet och ledande konstinstitutioner.

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Senast uppdaterad: 8 maj 2025

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