Hoesy Corona
PA’L NORTE
Saturday, February 4–Sunday, February 26, 2023

PA’L NORTE is the latest iteration of Corona’s ongoing project Climate Immigrants (2017- present) a series that problematizes notions around both immigration and climate change to highlight one of the most pressing issues of our time: environmental displacement in relationship to U.S-centric xenophobia—implicating ideas of land, borders, and environmental racism in the face of a global reshuffle.

In the gallery, the visitor is confronted with a series of large scale fiber vignettes that picture a single isolated character journeying from a land untold. The roaming monochrome figures are obfuscated by bodysuits and headdresses that hide their identities from the viewer, echoing how dehumanization is weaponized in society to excuse the mistreatment of others. The prints on fabric, constructed from digitally altered performances-for-the- camera, are rendered full of hope as bodies of color thrusting forward despite the unknown.

About the artist:

Hoesy Corona is a Queer Latinx artist creating uncategorized and multidisciplinary art spanning installation, performance, and sculpture. Corona is a current Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Fellow 2022-2023 at the Johns Hopkins University Libraries’.

Hoesy has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and public spaces in the United States and internationally including recent solo exhibitions All Roads Lead to Roam (2023) at Eric Dean Gallery at Wabash College in Indiana; Sunset Moonlight (2021) at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore; and Alien Nation (2017), at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presented by Transformer in DC. His work has been reviewed by The Washington Post, The American Scholar, and Bmore Art Magazine among others. Visit the artist’s website to learn more.