Latin American diaspora

May 4, 2026May 4, 2026, by Etty Yaniv

Yuyo- Julián Kreimer at the Sarah Lawrence Heimbold Visual Arts Center

Before his artist talk, Julián Kreimer set a small brown valise on the table and opened it. Inside, folders held drawings on paper, each made in response to a photographic slide from his parents’ archive. The valise was not part of the exhibition; it was the working material behind it, a private archive he had been drawing through for years. Encountering it set the terms for the room next door: Yuyo is what happens when that interior is opened out.

August 20, 2021August 20, 2021, by Nicole Kutz

Chalet Comellas-Baker: Interrogating the Performance of Identity

A person in a black dress

Description automatically generated with low confidence — *Secrets between (Wo)Men & Nature,* single channel video, 2021

Chalet Comellas-Baker uses video, sound, installation, and print to interrogate memory, environment, and place. The Nashville-based artist is inspired by her Spanish, Cuban and American roots and often references Latin American diasporic histories through her personal lens of assimilation. As the co-owner of Unrequited Leisure, she brings a new dynamic of screen-based artwork with critical and topical investigations into Nashville’s growing art scene.