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Rainbow
Queer Thoughts, Nicaragua
1.22.15

Kaoru Arima
Diamond Antoinette Stingily
Lucie Stahl
Chelsea Culp
Martine Syms
Horseshoecrabs Horseshoecrabs
Dot Space
David Rappeneau
Margot Espinoza
Donna Huanca
Alison Veit
Puppies Puppies
Lulou Margarine
Mindy Rose Schwartz
Rob Halverson
Chloe Seibert
Jared Madere

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CONTEMPORARY ART DAILY

Rainbow

Queer Thoughts presents Rainbow, a group exhibition organized across three different locations in Nicaragua: at an apartment building in San Juan del Sur, a surf town on the Pacific Ocean; at a house in La Virgen, on the shore of Lake Nicaragua; and at a forest preserve waterfall in San Jose de los Remates, an agricultural village in the mountains of the department of Boaco. This is the first exhibition organized by Queer Thoughts in the country.

Rainbow takes its setting in the current political landscape of the country, whose government has recently begun preliminary digging for a new trans-oceanic canal that will rival the Panama Canal. Financed by a Chinese private interest group, the new canal will be significantly longer and wider than that of Panama, engendering a new era of Chinese monitored global trade that will utilize new mega-ships and circumvent the US supervised canal in Panama. In addition to bisecting the country and the Central-American ecological corridor, the waterway will destroy forests and displace populations, bringing heavy ship traffic into Lake Nicaragua (the largest lake and source of freshwater in Central America). The Nicaraguan government has girded public discussions about the project, but claims the canal will bring newfound prosperity to the impoverished nation.

Long beholden to foreign interests, many Nicaraguans hope the new canal will generate long standing financial independence. Queer Thoughts presents an exhibition of the work of sixteen international artists as a proposal for an alternative means of exploiting personal resources (emotional, physical). The canal will likely be built. Hundreds of kilometers away from the site of the construction, at the waterfall in San Jose de los Remates, wild ginger grows verdant and leafy in the moist rocks, while water makes its way down to the town.

A public opening will be held at the location in La Virgen, Nicaragua on Thursday January 22nd from 2 to 5 pm.

San Juan Del Sur

Queer Thoughts Rainbow

David Rappeneau, Untitled (2014). Acryic, ballpoint pen, pencil, charcoal pencil on paper

Chloe Seibert, Untitled (2015). Plaster, rubber

Dot Space

Dot Space, Ginger (2015). Pencil on paper with artist frame

Kaoru Arima

Kaoru Arima, Gazed Into the River (2013). Acrylic, clay

Chelsea Culp

Chelsea Culp, sHhhhh (2014). Spray paint on cotton bed sheet

La Virgen

Diamond Stingily

Diamond Antoinette Stingily, Mother's Little Helper (2014). Inkjet print

Mindy Rose Schwartz

Mindy Rose Schwartz, Landscape Stares Back (2005). Pencil and ink on mulberry paper

David Rappeneau

David Rappeneau, Untitled (2014). Acryic, ballpoint pen, pencil, charcoal pencil on paper

Lulou Margerine

Lulou Margarine, Peaceful Protest (2015). Cinnamon

Kaoru Arima

Kaoru Arima, Revolver (2013). Acrylic, clay, newspaper

Mindy Rose Schwartz

Mindy Rose Schwartz, Hungry Baby Bird Wanders Onto A Tip Of A Branch. Oh, Be Careful! (2005). Clay, feathers, beads, roach clips, wood, foam, iridescent paint.

Mindy Rose Schwartz