Central to the exhibition is Ilopango, the Volcano that Left (2023), a speculative reconstruction of an ancient volcano that erupted in the sixth century C.E. Working in steel, Cortez fashions each sculpture by hand, improvising to create undulating surfaces and organic forms that echo the surrounding landscape. Moving beyond colonized notions of time and space, Cortez engages Indigenous knowledge and spirituality, philosophy, and the cycles of the planet to reorient our understanding of the past and present and to imagine an alternative future. Throughout the exhibition, the artist examines geologic, human, and cosmic conditions to imagine other forms of existence that transcend static definition. Cortez’s multidisciplinary practice considers the experience of migration through the lens of simultaneity, recalling the multiple spatial and temporal realities that immigrants experience at once. Beatriz Cortez: The Volcano That Left brings together new and recent large-scale sculptures by the El Salvador–born (1970), Los Angeles–based artist.
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