In Convulsiones Planetarias/Planetary Convulsions (runs through August 2), Kadist showcases Naomi Rincón Gallardo’s marvelously otherworldly videos. While it may be the artist’s first U.S. solo exhibition, the Mexico City and Oaxaca-based artist’s work has been show internationally, at biennials, and locally in the series “Performance in Progress,” curated by Frank Smigel at SFMOMA in 2017.

Through the Kadist exhibition’s videos “Resiliencia Tlacuache/Opossum Resilience” (2019), “Soneto de Alimañas/Sonnet of Vermin” (2022), and “Filiación abono/Dung Kinship” (2024), Rincón Gallardo presents elaborate cosmologies that reference ancient Mesoamerican mythologies and ecological processes. With fabulous makeshift costumes and props, the artist builds worlds that prioritize queer/cuir and Latin

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