A WINDOW TO EUROPE: THROUGH ART & LITERATURE
FEATURING HOESY CORONA
September 27 - October 13, 2021
Plain Sight DC and the EU National Institutes of Culture in Washington, DC present A Window to Europe: Through Literature and Art, a series of short exhibitions featuring eleven visual artists from the Washington, DC region who will create work in response to eleven books by European writers, as part of the 2021 Europe Readr project. In this exhibition, Hoesy Corona creates work in response to German writer Lukas Jüliger’s book Unfollow.
This exhibition is presented in partnership with EUNIC DC, the EU Delegation to the United States, and the Goethe-Institute Washington.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: Hoesy Corona's Earthboi is a mixed-media commemorative sculpture depicting the fictitious character with the same name in Lukas Jüliger’s Unfollow. When Earthboi was born from the earth he could smell the essence of the world. When he became a human and started to destroy the earth, he could barely smell its essence anymore. He knew that if he could only remind people of the smell that they would surely re-envision a way forward in balance with nature again. Humans, however, made their choice—leaving us to wonder what could have been if nature’s essence wasn’t our enemy. This sculpture continues the artist’s interest in the relationship between the natural world and humans’ waged war on nature. Earthboi is the first piece in a new sculptural series titled The Plant People.
Hoesy Corona is an uncategorized queer Latinx artist of Mexican descent living and working in the US. Using a variety of media spanning installation, performance, and video, Hoesy develops otherworldly narratives centering marginalized individuals in society by exploring a process-based practice that investigates what it means to be a queer Latinx immigrant in a place where there are few. He choreographs large-scale performances and installations that oftentimes silently confront and delight viewers with some of the most pressing issues of our time. Reoccurring themes of queerness, race/class/gender, nature, isolation, celebration, and the climate crisis are present throughout his work. Hoesy has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and public spaces in the United States and abroad including recent solo exhibitions Sunset Moonlight (2021) at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD, and Earthly Mirage (2021) at the Hardesty Arts Center in Tulsa, OK. He lived in Mexico, Utah, and Wisconsin, before moving to Baltimore, MD in 2005 to establish a professional practice in the arts. He is a recent GKFF Artist Fellow 2019 & 2020 in Tulsa, OK, and is a former Halcyon Arts Lab Fellow 2017-2018 in Washington, DC.
Lukas Jüliger (1988) is an artist, comic book artist, cartoon artist, and illustrator who studied illustration in Hamburg and Paris. In 2013, he published his first novel Vacuum, convincing both critics and readers of his immense talent. He lives and works in Berlin.
A Window Through Europe
This exhibition is part of A Window to Europe: Through Literature and Art, a series of short exhibitions featuring eleven visual artists from the Washington, DC region who are creating work in response to eleven books by European writers, as part of the 2021 Europe Readr project. Featured artists are Hoesy Corona, Alanna Reeves, Mike Thron, Michal Gavish, Julie Wills, MK Bailey, Antonio McAfee, Emily Fussner, Stephanie Williams, Lionel Frazier White III, and Sobia Ahmad.
