press / interviewsPress / Interviews: The Latinx Project at NYU Princess Jafar’s Instant Messages (on Medium) Newport Daily News “The artist dripped his blood onto paint chips, but the sanguine and sensational quickly cede to the swatches’ racialized names. “Well-bred brown” and “suitable brown” are sequenced alongside lighter hues like “cotton white” and “casa blanca,” pointing to the racisms that can hide in taxonomy (artistic or otherwise).”
Brown Daily Herald Performance is Alive The Blognonian Perhaps you will sense the kind of “scared” that is learned through being, which is embodied in many of the works. By virtue of existing while Latinx/Latine (and black, brown, queer, indigenous…), you learn that other people are scary — and scared of you. The two fears are seen again and again in the exhibit, where doubling became an unintended but welcome theme.
Pittsburgh City Paper It may not be obvious on the surface, but the process of naming colors inevitably reflects deeper ideas about culture and race. Even if we’re not aware of the name of a given paint, we’re still receiving subtle message from the thousands of colors we interact with daily. In asking us to put words to something as ethereal and nonverbal as color, Lundberg Torres Sanchez and Kinsel are challenging the public to address signals that otherwise go unnoticed.
Motif Magazine The entire audience was willing him to never finish performing…He was allowed to do whatever he needed. He had given so much. The only manner in which to repay him for his truth was to accept his next steps thereafter. Then applaud them.
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