Esperanza Cortés Exhibition at The Current
January 26 – April 8, 2023
Opening Reception: January 26, 5 to 7 p.m.​​
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. / Saturday: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Esperanza Cortés is a Colombian born multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortes’s passion for the mosaic of the Americas, its folk art traditions, rituals, music, dance and their ever evolving changes are at the core of her sculptures, paintings, installations, site-specific projects and interventions. Her artwork examines the extent to which a consciousness, national or personal, defines itself through the opposing force of a transcultural experience. The work is poetically and intricately crafted to encourage the viewer to reconsider social and historical narratives especially when dealing with Colonialism and raises critical questions about the politics of erasure and exclusion.