Borimix 2025: Urban Mosaics / Lo Que Vendrá
When: Opening November 11 @ 5PM
On view: November 11, 2025 - January 10, 2026
Where: Tamayo Gallery at Teatro LATEA @ 2nd Floor of The Clemente
Artists: Anaís N. Cruz and Pedro Wainer
The 2025 Borimix visual arts exhibition considers the fluid dynamics of Argentine and Puerto Rican communities in New York City, with the constantly evolving relationship between machines and the urban landscape.
The candid street photographs of Anaís Nicole Cruz share glimpses of intimate cityscapes where urban rituals like dancing in the park, playing dominoes in "los Sures"- Williamsburg, and riding flag waving bikes signal Argentine and Puerto Rican longing and belonging, a contemporary dialogue between "ayer" and "hoy" in Argentina, Puerto Rico and New York City.
Pedro Wainer's collages from photographs explore the ever-evolving Brooklyn urban landscape - the formerly industrial Gowanus, Sunset Park, and Red Hook- as a site for the ever-expanded presence of construction cranes and other building machines (as ciphers for the human body) through color and volume. This new point of departure represents an act of reconstruction and transformation as Pedro’s original series of photo/sculpture combines was completely lost in a devastating fire that destroyed an iconic artist studio building in Red Hook, Brooklyn, just weeks before this exhibition opening.
Note: In Wainer's original expanded photography project, digital photographs were mounted onto wooden blocks as support for structures combining pieces of iron and aluminum profiles.
