Indigenous Perspectives on Radical Kinship: Kimberly Robertson, Corazón Del Sol & Chloë Flores

Saturday, June 20, 1–2PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA, CA 90065
Info on our space here
Max participants: 40
Free

Join us for a walk-through and conversation with two artists and the curator of the exhibition. This talk will highlight the works and artists that foreground hemispheric Indigenous frameworks of resurgence and relational world-building, and will discuss art as a tool for both critique of dominant systems and demonstrating new possibilities for communal life.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Kimberly Robertson is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a Professor of American Indian Studies, and a visual artist. Her scholarship and creative practices center Native feminisms, the sexual and gendered violence of settler colonialism, ceremony, storytelling, decolonization, and Indigenous futurities. Her artworks have been exhibited in numerous community, university, public, and private galleries as well as included in peer-reviewed monographs and anthologies. In the spring of 2024, The Chapter House hosted Robertson’s first solo-exhibition, Diary of a Native Femme(nist). Robertson is an active member of the Los Angeles Indian community and facilitates beading circles and art-making workshops with Tribal Nations and communities, both locally and nationally.
@kdrslaysthepatriarchy

Corazón del Sol is a Mexican Yaqui Native and third generation Los Angeles-based visual artist and activist. Informally taught by her early access to the arts and subsequent questioning of arts’ organizing systems, her practice is rooted in collective sense-making through conversation, performance, installation, video, sculpture and curatorial projects. The heart of her work is the exploration of historical traumas and their reparative solutions through collective experimental practices.  For the past five years, she has been working with private and public entities on transforming our communities by creating a low-cost housing prototype within small eco communities, Jardin de Estrellas. Her work has been shown at international institutions such as Salon Nacional 44 Colombia (Colombian National Salon of Artists) and International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian. Del Sol has curated shows including Dysfuctional Formulas of Love with co-curator Víctor Albarracín Llanos and Let Power Take a Female Form, and is represented by The Box gallery.
@delsolcorazon

Chloë Flores (she/her) is a Latinx Yaqui Native curator, writer, educator, and arts leader with over twenty years of experience working in Los Angeles’ art sector. She works at the intersection of performance, place, and advocacy—foregrounding movement-based and transdisciplinary practices that interrogate power, history, and belonging. She is the director and curator of homeLA, a dance-centered organization that promotes intersectionality through site-specific programming—bridging art, architecture, and the layered histories of Los Angeles. Her work spans exhibitions, performances, programs, publications, residencies, and coalition-driven initiatives that seek to redistribute resources and generate new models for care, equity, and critical exchange. 
www.chloeflores.com