Filiación abono (Dung kinship)

Naomi Rincón Gallardo, *Filiación abono (Dung kinship)*, 2024. Video installation. On view at 32 Lisgar as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2024. Co-commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and KADIST. Photography: Toni Hafkenscheid.

Filiación abono (Dung kinship) (2024) is a two-channel video installation that takes viewers on a surreal musical journey. The video depicts motorcycling flies travelling through different dry wastelands and encountering a forest of hybrid hallucinatory characters, such as children-mushrooms, that capture one fly and take her underground. By gaining access to this underworld, viewers are faced with the complex beauty of decomposition processes occurring beneath our feet.

The installation is accompanied by two large sculptures of flies made of metal, glass, and ceramic. The sculptures feature anthropomorphic characteristics and are installed to appear as if they are flying and standing on the wall. They serve as a reminder to viewers of the regenerative and healing potential of various forms of tiny life that inhabit waste, garbage, and discarded matter.

Co-produced by the Toronto Biennial of Art and KADIST. Made possible with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Women Leading Initiative.

Toronto Biennial of Art 2024 · Naomi Rincón Gallardo, La parentela del abono (Dung Kinship)

Bio

Naomi Rincón Gallardo

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Naomi Rincón Gallardo (1979; she/her) is a visual artist living and working between Mexico City and Oaxaca. From a decolonial-cuir perspective, her research-driven critical-mythical world-makings address the creation of counter-worlds in neocolonial settings. In her work, she integrates her interests in theatre games, popular music, Mesoamerican cosmologies, speculative fiction, vernacular festivities and crafts, decolonial feminisms and queer of colour critique. She completed the PhD in Practice Program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Recent shows and performative screenings include: Tzitzimime Trilogy, la Casa Encendida Madrid (2023); 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022), 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021), Una Trilogía de Cuevas (A Trilogy of Caves), 2020 (Solo Show) Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, May your thunder break the sky, 2020 (Solo Show) Kunstraum Innsbruck, 11 Berlin Biennale, 2020 Berlin, Heavy Blood, 2019, (Solo Show) Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City.

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Location

32 Lisgar St and Park

Accessibility
32 Lisgar St and Park
Accessible entrance
– Note: If you have access needs and are being dropped off at the venue, use ’36 Lisgar’ as the drop-off address instead of 32 Lisgar. This will bring you closer to our entrance.
Washrooms
Elevator
AODA compliant building
Parking: Limited Street, Underground Parking (Paid)
There is ample paid parking nearby, including a Green P lot in the building, a lot accessible from the alley between Dovercourt and Lisgar off Sudbury, and street parking on both Lisgar Street and Abell Street.
Getting There
32 Lisgar St and Park
By subway: Line 1 – From St. Andrew Station, take the 504 King streetcar west to Abell Street, walk 2 minutes. Line 2 – From Dufferin Station: take the 29 Bus south to Queen Street West, walk 7 minutes
By streetcar: Take the 501 Queen streetcar and get off at Abell Street, just east of Gladstone. Or, take the 504 King streetcar. Get off at Sudbury Street, and walk north/west along Sudbury to Lisgar Street.