SOMA
Schedule
Fri Sep 05 2025 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46203 | Indianapolis, IN
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September 5- October 19Main Gallery
Opening reception
September 5, 6-10pm
This exhibition explores the supernatural and ethereal states of somatic responses. Inspired by Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World," where soma was a fictional drug used to pacify civilians in a state of existential bliss and disassociation. Exploring the socialized perceptions of figures occupying space, "Soma" takes on confronting perceived utopia and dysmorphia in this exhibition.
In the works, moments of adolescent innocence are paired with
surrealist and folkloric expressions of figuration. Satirically, this speaks to resisting and transcending moments that are out of alignment as people grow; without physically being dismissed.
Featured artists:
Jo Archuleta (MO)
Nehemiah Cisneros (CA)
Tommy Lomeli (MT)
Katherine Looney (KCMO) October Sharify (IL)
Isaac Tapia (MO)
Cesar Velez (MO)
Guest Curator Yashi Davalos
Davalos is an Afro-Puerto Rican-Mexican, Atlanta Native, based in New Orleans. Her practice began in the Americana Deep South. She attended HBCU, Savannah State University, where she studied Vocal Performance. Yashi’s curatorial research centers socio-cultural epistemology, the south and the global south, through an interdisciplinary arts praxis.
Yashi was the 2023-2025 curatorial fellow and interim grants and awards coordinator at The Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. She was previously a member of collective run gallery The Front New Orleans.
Davalos has designed and facilitated programming in collaboration with various institutions including Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Prospect New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, UMKC Music Conservatory, and MDW Artist Coalition. Her art has been exhibited throughout New Orleans, ATL, KCMO, and at MECA Art Fair in the Dominican Republic. Yashi’s writing has been published via Sixty Inches From Center, Burnaway, and Intervenxions at Latinx Project NYU.
IMAGE
Nehemiah Cisneros, Wicked City Parade.
360" x 48", Acrylic on Canvas, 2024
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Where is it happening?
1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46203Event Location & Nearby Stays:
