Theories & Prayers on Concrete, curated by Jackie Rines

Apr 29 - May 21, 2023

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is pleased to present Theories & Prayers on Concrete, featuring work by Adrian MM Abela, Mariam Alcantara, and Lupita Limón Corrales. An architect, a poet, and a video artist walk into a circle. The architect is making candles, the poet is making trouble, and the video artist is an embroidering lover. Each theorizes migration through a soft mapping of felt feelings, the copper anodizing of a tortured tortoise shell, and the fraying of a green construction tarp trap on which a phrase has been written. Three Los Angeles-based artists mend, mark, and map, making a home as they stroll along the trashy path.

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Adrian Abela (1989, Pieta’, Malta) is an artist, architect, and acolyte. He studied architecture and civil engineering in Malta and Milan and received an MFA in sculpture from UCLA. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His work meanders between poetry and metaphor to provide visceral interpretations of his perspective on being on Earth with its multiple histories and possible futures. His endeavors stem from curiosity of encountered materials and/or narratives in the waking and/or dreaming states. He uses science and inspiration to acknowledge that self-awareness and acquisition of knowledge might be illusory and temporary while harboring and forming part of a self-similar system. Together they intertwine their experiences of the complex, through spirit and politics, (the intrinsic and extrinsic, the passive and wilful, the aware and alienated, the present and ignorant); to navigate consensus reality.
@adrian.mm.abela
vimeo.com/adrianabela

Mariam Alcantara (MFA, New Genres, UCLA 2018) Is an artist and educator whose works focus on interpersonal relationships, body language and shared physical movement.
@mariamlovesmiguel

Lupita Limón Corrales is a poet, artist, educator, interpreter, and tree apprentice. Born in Sinaloa and raised in LA’s San Gabriel Valley, she comes from a long line of arboleros, homemakers, caretakers, criminals, peasant farmers, and cashiers who love to party on the weekend. Her work can be found in dozens of zines and handmade books; on Dublab and Lower Grand Radio; and in Dryland, Protean Magazine, and Huizache.
@bien_volada

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