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      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • The Dust: American Matter
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
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    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
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  • Home
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    • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
    • Un-Boxing
    • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
  • Street Road Press
  • Summer Library
    • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
    • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Laura Florence
    • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
    • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
    • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
    • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
    • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
    • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
    • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
    • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
  • Clouded Title
    • Clouded Title 2018
    • Clouded Title 2019
    • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
  • Past
    • 2022
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • The Dust: American Matter
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • The Post Anthropocene Compost
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
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 May the
neotropical arise
​~

El eros de la espaciosidad
​

Zulu Padilla 

February 3, 2023 to
​June 3, 2023


Opening Reception: 
February 18, 2023
Featuring:
Zulu will broadcast live ​from the first day of Carnavalde in Barranquilla,  Colombia, Live at Street Road and on Street Road's Instagram
1pm-3pm
Eastern Standard Time &
​COT/Colombia Time


Closing Reception and Summer Party:
June 3, 2023


Please visit
www.artworkarchive.com/profile/zulupadilla
​to view more of Zulu's work.

​This exhibition is co-curated by Christopher Murray and Street Road.


​Please email us for purchasing details and with any questions at info@streetroad.org.
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Zulu Padilla's May the Neotropical Arise is an exploration of migration, both literal and metaphorical: this body of work considers migration in a geopolitical sense as well as on an individual, personal level.
 An overarching theme is that everything in the natural world is in permanent transformation, depending on our perspective.

A major focus of this work is neotropical birds and their annual journey from the artist's native Colombia to his current home in Brooklyn, with parallels drawn to his own personal journeys. 


'Migration' for Padilla exists on three levels:
— the socio-political: meaning massive human international migrations 
— the natural: the migration cycle of different species on the planet 
— the sense of self (from where we also see the two other levels): how we see ourselves and each other, existing in constant flux given identities; migrating, integrating and denying different selves that we all have 

Taking these together, Let the neotropical arise proposes a meta-relationship between migration and the idea of transcendental home, a place we might always be reaching toward, a place always in the process of creation. 

Physically, the works here are medium-scale, mixed-media assembled constructions integrating Padilla's photographs of birds, his ongoing deconstructed carnival costumes, and jetsam from gay cruising grounds, such as used condoms degraded to nothing more than plastic rings.
The latter, fascinatingly, is something that birds integrate into their nest constructions. The condom no longer has the ability to serve as a frontier between two intertwined human bodies, and so this transformed object can be thought of as representing the intimate connection of the self, society and nature.

​One of the perspectives that seduces Padilla is that nothing that separates us, no frontier, no nation, is sustainable over time independently. The history of humanity and nature as a metaphor confirms this for us.

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Zulu Padilla is a queer Colombian artist who migrated to Brooklyn in 2012 and found in neotropical bird migration the avenues to integrate his cultural background into New York City's atomic life. He, like the birds, has kept the migration cycle: winter south in Colombia, working in Carnival in his hometown of Barranquilla; the rest of the year, in his Brooklyn studio/home, making print-based assemblages and installations. Each practice entangles the other.

His winter practice is centered on the Caribbean Carnival, which has a long tradition of personal and social transformation via new identity construction and sympathetic joy. 
​

When the neotropical migration is ready to go north for breeding and nesting, he travels back to his studio/home in Brooklyn for the following Spring, Summer and Fall, tracking and taking photographs of the birds in the New York area and beyond. He states: 'my work responds to personal inquiry of who and what I am in my deepest intentions, for the communities that I belong in my Latin American/Caribbean diaspora and society as a whole.'

Following his inquiry of belonging, he practices Dharma buddhism and is a Social meditation facilitator. Buddhist Geeks have been his playground buddies in this exploration: an online mindfulness community about Dharma and the relentless influence of technology. Currently he is working on the integration of recycled paper-maché  in his neotropical work informed by his experience in social meditation.

El Eros de la Espaciosidad (Que surja lo Neotropical) de Zulu Padilla es una exploración de la migración, tanto literal como metafórica: este cuerpo de trabajo considera la migración en un sentido geopolítico así como a nivel individual y personal. Un tema general es que todo en el mundo natural está en permanente transformación, dependiendo de nuestra perspectiva.
El enfoque principal de este trabajo son las aves neotropicales y su viaje anual desde la Colombia natal del artista hasta su hogar actual en Brooklyn, con paralelismos con sus propias experiencias personales.
La 'migración' para Padilla existe en tres niveles:
— lo sociopolítico: es decir, migraciones humanas masivas internacionales
— lo natural: el ciclo migratorio de diferentes especies en el planeta
— el sentido del yo (desde donde también vemos los otros dos niveles): cómo nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás, existiendo en constante flujo de identidades; migrando, integrando y/o negando los diferentes yoes que todos tenemos
Tomando lo anterior,  El  Eros de la Espaciosidad /Que surja lo Neotropical, propone una meta-relación entre la migración y la idea de un hogar trascendental, un lugar al que siempre podríamos estar llegando, un lugar siempre en proceso de creación.

Físicamente, las obras aquí son ensambles de medios mixtos de mediana escala que integran las fotografías de pájaros de Padilla, sus disfraces de carnaval deconstruidos en curso y desechos de los lugares de cruising gay, como condones usados ​​degradados a nada más que anillos de latex.
Este último, fascinantemente, es algo que las aves integran en la construcción de sus nidos. El condón ya no tiene la capacidad de servir como frontera entre dos cuerpos humanos entrelazados, por lo que se puede pensar que este objeto transformado representa la conexión íntima del yo, la sociedad y la naturaleza.

Una de las perspectivas que seduce a Padilla es que nada que nos separe, ninguna frontera, ninguna nación, es sostenible en el tiempo de manera independiente. La historia de la humanidad y la naturaleza como metáfora nos lo confirma.

Zulu Padilla es un artista colombiano queer que emigró a Brooklyn en 2012 y encontró en la migración de aves neotropicales las vías para integrar su trasfondo cultural a la vida atómica de la ciudad de Nueva York. Él, como los pájaros, ha mantenido el ciclo migratorio: invierno al sur de Colombia, trabajando en Carnaval en su ciudad natal de Barranquilla; el resto del año, en su estudio/casa de Brooklyn, realizando ensamblajes e instalaciones basados ​​en impresiones. Cada práctica enreda a la otra.

Su práctica invernal se centra en el Carnaval del Caribe, que tiene una larga tradición de transformación personal y social a través de la construcción de nuevas identidades y la alegría solidaria.​
Cuando la migración neotropical está lista para ir al norte a reproducirse y anidar, viaja de regreso a su estudio/hogar en Brooklyn para la primavera, el verano y el otoño siguientes, rastreando y tomando fotografías de las aves en el área de Nueva York y más allá. Él afirma: 'mi trabajo responde a la indagación personal de quién y qué soy en mis intenciones más profundas, para las comunidades a las que pertenezco en mi diáspora latinoamericana/caribeña y la sociedad en su conjunto.'
​

Siguiendo su indagación de pertenencia, practica el budismo Dharma y es facilitador de meditación social. Buddhist Geeks han sido sus compañeros de juego en esta exploración: una comunidad  online sobre el Dharma y la influencia implacable de la tecnología. Actualmente está trabajando en la integración de papel maché  en su trabajo neotropical informado por su experiencia en meditación social.
Photograph: Paul Notice

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  • Home
  • Current/Upcoming
    • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
    • Un-Boxing
    • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
  • Street Road Press
  • Summer Library
    • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
    • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Laura Florence
    • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
    • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
    • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
    • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
    • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
    • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
    • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
    • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
  • Clouded Title
    • Clouded Title 2018
    • Clouded Title 2019
    • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
  • Past
    • 2022
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • The Dust: American Matter
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • The Post Anthropocene Compost
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog