Maria Gaspar: We Press Our Hands to the Steel Curtain
We Press Our Hands to the Steel Curtain presents recent work by Gaspar that treats time as a tactic and material in relation to carceral spaces, with a title drawn from Gloria Anzaldúa's writing.
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- When
- Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · 12:00 PM
- Ends
- Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · 5:00 PM
- Where
- Blaffer Art Museum
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- arts · free · Performance Art · Visual Arts + Museums · Non Applicable
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We Press Our Hands to the Steel Curtain brings together recent work that demonstrates how Gaspar engages with these carceral spaces, deploying time both as a tactic and material. The title is adapted from a line in Gloria Anzaldúa's poem and essay "The Homeland, Aztlán/El otro México." In dialogue with Anzaldúa's writing, Gaspar sees walls as structures which shape psychic, social, and cultural terrains. Pressing hands might evoke healing or resistance: in either case, the gesture is dynamic and temporal.
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