Meet the Artist + Artist Talk: Eva Rocha

Name: Meet the Artist + Artist Talk: Eva Rocha
Start: 2023-03-03T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-03-03T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Taubman Museum of Art

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Mar 03, 2023

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Ceramic tattooed arm made to look like an artifact — Eva Rocha, *Artifactual Object*, 2022, plaster, concrete, and soil dyes, courtesy of the artist

Meet artist Eva Rocha, whose new exhibition HAVE YOU SEEN The Dark Parrot? opens on March 3.

You can meet Rocha in the galleries from 6-7 pm, then join us in the Museum’s Auditorium at 7 pm to hear her speak about the works on view.

In HAVE YOU SEEN The Dark Parrot?, Rocha presents a multimedia installation built off her research of sixteenth-century explorers’ journals and other colonial narratives perpetually impacting Indigenous Peoples and their descendants – and consequently present in the Latinx diaspora.

Through a display of contemporary art appropriating the aesthetic language of artifacts and their consumption via a Eurocentric zoomorphic gaze, HAVE YOU SEEN The Dark Parrot? searches to open a dialogue about the historic cannibalization of Indigenous cultures in a parallel, unseen art history.

No registration required – free and welcoming to all!

Eva Rocha is a Brazilian-American multimedia artist. Her personal experiences and cross-disciplinary studies in theater, anthropology, cultural studies, and kinetic imaging in Brazil, Peru, and the United States permeate and inform her interest in the language and embodiment of collective trauma and its archiving into objects. Much of her multimedia work investigates processes of dehumanization and serves a dramatic language that confronts viewers to take part in the work as spectators or agents in a social dialogue. In 2022, The Taubman Museum of Art awarded her first prize and a solo exhibition for her work Silent Chorus in the Homeward Bound Juried Triennial.