NADA House 

MAY 8 - AUGUST 1 - 2021  

Governor's Island, NY, House 404A, 1st floor, S19

 

For NADA House 2021 Zawahra Alejandro presents "Salvanomía"; recent sculptures by Quintín Rivera Toro. "Salvanomía" is a made up term combining the spanish words 'salvación' (salvation) and 'dasonomía' (dasonomy) - the study of forests. Quintín engraves the words "This wood will save the country" into functional sculptures as a way to create talismans and as a form of prayer. He re-signifies the resource of wood as a political material, during economic and political hardship. In this exhibit there are three functional sculptures: a bench (almond tree), a shelf (eucalyptus tree) and a bar table top (bullet tree). Additional wall works, built with different types of Puerto Rico's national woods and excotic woods, reference Latin American abstraction movements while opening geopolitical conversations. 

In The News

“At 404A, a cloak room furnished by works in wood by Quintín Rivera Toro includes a bench, available for use, titled “This Almond Tree Will Save Our Country” (Zawahra Alejandro).”