Geometrica, Pop Y Rucas
May 2nd - June. 14th, 2025
Exhibiting Artists:
Gabriella Poulos (Kansas City, MO), Evie Lozano (Atlanta, GA), Brayan Enriquez (Atlanta, GA), Jaasiel DT (Jansas City, MO), Blas Isasi (St. Louis, MO) Ariadna Ginez (Chicago, IL), and Caleb Taylor (Kansas City, MO).
curated by Yashi Davalos
at The Charlotte Street Foundation
3333 Wyoming St, Kansas City, MO
This exhibition explores the social parallels of midwestern and generational Latine identity. Geometrica, Pop y Rucas world. builds non-linear interactions with space, time, and, the latine body.
Non linear migration patterns are designed in the gallery to explore isolated confrontations of modernism; from the grid based infrastructure of Kansas City in a barren and industrial land, to the geometric contemporary design of Latine landscapes.
These confrontations exist in three movements: Infrastructure in pantomime, a destigmatized body, a futurism with land and body hybrids.
Programming
Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In collaboration with the UMKC Music Conservatory’s Sight x Sounds Series, the In Absentia Concert is a subtitled night of performance based on an original composition from Charlotte Street Studio Resident, Alberto Racanati, DMA. In dialogue with the exhibition Geometrica Pop y Rucas, curated by Yashi Davalos, Racanati activates the three phases of works to create non-linear migratory patterns in the gallery activated by the musicians in pantomime with their luggage. Conservatory performers include Kyoungseon Lim (flute), Maddy Smith (mezzo voice), Wan Loo Soo (viola), Carlos Pacheco (bassoon).
ABOUT ALBERTO RACANATI
Alberto Racanati is a genre-bending musician, producer, and composer originally from Bari, Italy, now established in Kansas City. His musical journey started at age 11 when he learned to play his first notes on the trumpet. From Bari, he continued his studies in Gdansk, Poland, then moved to the United States and finally arrived in Kansas City in 2016. His music blends his background as a trumpet player with jazz, beat culture, and electronica, shaped by his immigrant experience, using technology and social media as an interactive, open sketchbook for his sonic excursions.
Under the moniker “Alber”, he released three full-length albums, supported by an active presence onstage all over the country. As a composer, Alberto has written a variety of multimedia works. He is currently a Charlotte Street Foundation resident and the recipient of numerous grants, including an ArtsKC grant for his multimedia installation, Born at Sea.