Jess Montecinos, Tia Madden
A Message to the Future, a Note from the Past
In A Message to the Future, a Note from the Past, two artists explore language as something that requires human interaction, and a community of people using the language, in order to keep it alive— or bring it to life.
Jess Montecinos’ multimedia installation Wiphala, Diablada passes Bolivian stories and culture onto future generations in an attempt to preserve and solidify a future for the Quechua language.
In Cyphers, an installation of paper and copper drawings, Tia Madden offers speculative devices for reading, (or misreading); pondering the moment a line shifts from being a drawing into something more legible— something like a language.
