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Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente

06/29/23-09/17/23

“My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente” will be the most comprehensive exhibition to date by Pepón Osorio (b. 1955, San Juan, Puerto Rico), featuring works from the 1990s to today.

“Mi corazón latiente/ My Beating Heart”, la exposición de Pepón Osorio (n. 1955, San Juan, Puerto Rico), será la más completa hasta la fecha con obras desde la década de 1990 hasta la actualidad.

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Pepón Osorio, Scene of the Crime (Whose Crime?), 1993. Mixed mediums. Exhibition view: “NYC 1993: Experimental, Jet Set, Trash and No Star,” New Museum, New York, 2013. Photo: Benoît Pailley

Imagen de portada: Pepón Osorio, Scene of the Crime (Whose Crime?), 1993. Técnica mixta

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Informed by his background in theater and performance as well as his experiences as a child services case worker and professor, Osorio’s richly textured sculptures and installations are deeply invested in political, social, and cultural issues affecting Latinx and working class communities in the United States. Installed in the New Museum’s Second Floor galleries, the exhibition will focus on the elaborate, large-scale, multimedia environments that Osorio has been creating since the early 1990s, often developed through long-term conversations and collaborations with individuals in the neighborhoods where they were first shown. This exhibition will provide an opportunity to experience Pepón Osorio’s new and most iconic projects together for the first time, and demonstrate the distinctive ways in which he creates encompassing environments that illustrate personal stories and reveal crucial societal concerns. Taken from an eponymous work, the title of the exhibition addresses themes that resonate throughout Osorio’s practice, including the simultaneous resilience and fragility of human life, the values and desires that propel humanity, and the fundamental urgency to better care for one another.

“Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente” is curated by Margot Norton, former Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum and current Chief Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Bernardo Mosqueira, former ISLAA Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum and current Chief Curator at ISLAA.

A fully illustrated catalogue published by the New Museum accompanies the exhibition and includes an interview with the artist by Norton and Mosqueira; a conversation between Osorio and Rita Indiana; and texts by Rob Blackson, Ramón Rivera-Servera, and Guadalupe Rosales.

Click here for a Spanish version of the exhibition catalog.

Inspirado por sus experiencias en teatro y el performance, así como por sus experiencias como ayudante social de servicios para niños y profesor, las esculturas e instalaciones adornadas de Osorio están profundamente comprometidas con las situaciones políticos, sociales y culturales que afectan a las comunidades latinx y de clase trabajadora en los Estados Unidos. La exposición seria instalada en el segundo piso del New Museum y se centrará en los ambientes multidisciplinarios que Osorio ha estado creando desde principios de la década de 1990. La exposición también iluminará la metodología comunitaria de Osorio que embarga de conversaciones y colaboraciones con personas de los vecindarios donde las obras estaban mostradas por primera vez.

Esta exposición brindará por primera vez la oportunidad de apreciar las obras más icónicas de Pepón Osorio junto a los proyectos más recientes. Las obras demostrarán las formas distintivas en las que el artista crea ambientes inmersivos que ilustran historias personales y revelan preocupaciones sociales cruciales. El título de la exposición es tomado de una obra epónima que aborda temas la cual resuenan a lo largo de la práctica artística de Osorio, incluida la resiliencia y la fragilidad simultáneas de la vida humana, los valores y deseos que impulsan a la humanidad, y la urgencia fundamental de cuidarnos mejor.

“Pepón Osorio: Mi corazón latiente/ My Beating Heart” es curada por Margot Norton, curadora jefe Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (ex Allen and Lola Goldring curadora senior en el New Museum), y Bernardo Mosqueira, curadora jefe ISLAA (ex ISLAA Curatorial Fellow en el New Museum).

Un catálogo completamente ilustrado y publicado por el New Museum acompañará la exposición e incluye una entrevista con el artista por parte de Norton y Mosqueira; una conversación entre Osorio y Rita Indiana; y textos de Rob Blackson, Ramón Rivera-Servera, y Guadalupe Rosales.

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Sponsors

Major support for “Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente” is provided by the Mellon Foundation.



Artist commissions are generously supported by the Neeson / Edlis Artist Commissions Fund.

We gratefully acknowledge the International Leadership Council of the New Museum.

Generous support is provided by:
Liza Mauer
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, in memory of Ronald Feldman

Education and community programs are supported, in part, by the American Chai Trust.

Support for the publication has been provided by the J. McSweeney and G. Mills Publications Fund at the New Museum.

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