Meander // Serpentina

The members of SOIL (Seattle, USA) and Tlaxcala3 (Ciudad Mexico) will be exchanging spaces during the time of their respective city’s art fairs in 2025. This international sharing begins with SOIL’s’s Meander // Serpentina exhibition at Tlaxcala 3 during the ZONAMACO (Zona México Arte Contemporáneo) fair in February.  In July during the Seattle Art Fair, SOIL will present the work organized and curated by Tlaxcala3.

In Meander // Serpentina SOIL members respond to the shared histories of violent engineering and empire upon the natural watersheds in Seattle and Mexico City. Included works look towards the influence of water upon earth for future shaping and reshaping. Its fluid nature performs a certain gesture – a meandering that breaks away from the grip of efficiency’s mantra, “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.” Yet, this short distance flattens out the qualitative details of the curving path. Lost is the journey that affords more steps and more opportunities for discovery. In the case of water it must meander to be healthy. Its flow communes with its neighbors and they mutually nourish one another. Last century’s snaking Duwamish was dredged and diverted for a shipping port and filled in as industrial land for capitalist exploitation. Both Seattle and Mexico City’s landscapes bear the marks of massive amounts of earth and water moved by humans. The echoes of these choices reverberate indefinitely. Earthquakes cause these young foundations to shift from solid ground to liquid quicksand. Like the edge of the ocean under one’s feet, a sinking occurs. Yesterday’s haste has created the present day’s muck. Tomorrow’s path lies formless with bated breath.

Participating SOIL Artists: Iole Alessandrini, Sophia Anderson, Warren Armando Pope, Nola Avienne, Tania Colette B., Colleen Louise Barry, Sofya Belinskaya, Colleen RJC Bratton, Erin Elyse Burns, Lee Davignon, Parisa Ghaderi, James Hartunian, Ben Hirschkoff, Jia Jia, Philippe Hyojung Kim, Margie Livingston, quinn mcnichol, Quinton Merada, Julia Monté, Cameron Day O’Connell, Forrest Perrine, Tim Roda, Tara Tamaribuchi, Genevieve Tremblay, Ellen Ziegler.

– SOIL

Friday February 7 - Sunday February 10: 6-10

After: By appointment