For Those Who Chose The Sun Wooden cutout structures, acrylic, 2022 Spent the last couple of weeks in Oaxaca, making a new commission at Casa de la Cultura Oaxaqueña for Hacer Noche, responding directly to site. Some WIP of my imagined pre-colonial, decolonial structures - For Those Who Chose The Sun - figures to re-inhabit this sanctuary space, the inner courtyard of a former monastery once home to indigenous nuns. I was thinking about the lenticular - light and shadow, light and weight, rebellion and rigidity, the past and the future... “At Casa de la Cultura Oaxaqueña, Boswell’s commission takes up the history of the building, which was constructed in the eighteenth century to house indigenous nuns, specifically the daughters of indigenous Oaxacan chiefs. This history engages a larger narrative around Catholicism as a tool of colonization. Boswell’s installation is situated in the building’s patio, a tranquil space that was once the convent’s center of activity. The artist has repopulated the patio with animated wooden cut-outs inspired by pre-Christian artefacts from the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art, adopting a palette influenced by Oaxacan architecture. Through these imagined figures, Boswell gestures toward a world that existed prior to colonization.” - @hacernoche On view @casadelaculturaoax in a playfully shifting installation determined daily by those onsite, till December. Official documentation to follow.