Cotangent Invited Residencies 2022 - Mango and Okra, and Andres Schwerer.
Tangent Projects are extremely happy and excited to announce that this year we are able to offer two places for our Cotangent Invited Residencies and we will be joined by Mango and Okra, and Andres Schwerer. They will take place between July 25th to September 9th, 2022.
Mango and Okra is a Barcelona-based global collective creating and dreaming intersectional installations and participatory immersions exploring the themes of food, home, belonging and post-colonial futures. The collective engages in radical inquiry and reimagination of diasporic journeys through culinary storytelling and documenting forgotten realities. It's a collaboration between Agnes Essonti Luque, Lizette Nin and Roshni Kavate.
Agnes Essonti Luque is an Afro-Spanish artist born in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat. On the journey to her roots, she wanders through her memories, and returns home to nourishing foods which sustain her and her art.
Lizette Nin is a Dominican visual artist who is currently based in Barcelona. Lizette’s work revolves around autobiographical aspects including Afro-descendant roots. Lizette’s art practice intends to give visibility to groups and social struggles forgotten by the mainstream.
Roshni Kavate is a South Asian American artist. They work across textural mediums to create art that weaves together whimsical, moody reinterpretations of memory, place, grief, pleasure, and tradition.
Andres Schwerer is a Barcelona-based multidisciplinary artist who started their practice studying fine arts in Chavón The school of Design.
Andres’ practice includes digital media, sculpture, installation, and printmaking. It is focused on an ongoing exploration of the human body and physique that analyses how none-confirming bodies are present in different parts of society and culture; how these entities are influenced by the space they inhabit, but also how they can reform them.
Mixing Caribbean culture, queer imagery and the immigrant experience, decolonizing the body by creating visuals and ideas that transgress outside heteronormative boundaries, making their work a vessel where gender, sexuality and caribbeaness work together not only as healing tools but as weapons for the war that is to exist in these realities.
