Hay que tener estómago (You need a strong stomach) - Bruna Kury

Curated by Thais de Menezes
15th May – 12th June, opening reception Friday 15th of May, from 7pm

Over the course of almost two decades, Bruna Kury’s artistic practice has been challenging the apparatuses of control, surveillance, and capture inscribed within the worldview of imperial-colonial whiteness. Her solo exhibition “Hay que tener estómago” (You need a strong stomach) operates as a direct counterpoint to a reality traversed by these policies of annihilation.

In this context, neoliberal cynicism presents itself as an economy of global ingestion: a mouth permanently open to capture and assimilation. Nothing lies outside of it – everything is swallowed, processed, and returned as value. Its jaws move under imperialist handcuffs; a regime that absorbs even the rainbow of identities and operates across a landscape of rubble. A deep throat, lined with petroleum, sustains this flow, whose stomach processes the violence that is converted into circulation and fuel for the system.

text by Thais de Menezes