Sounds and Textures at 53 Washington Square S – New York, NY

We invite you to a concert-lecture that recovers the legacy of avant-garde artists and their entanglements with indigenous artistic practices during their exile in the Americas. On the escape route from Nazism and Fascism, New York acted as a hinge port—a meeting place for artists who would eventually find their destiny in Latin America, where the yaraví intertwines with Andean weaving.

Samuel Diz will perform pieces by Rosita García Ascot, Manuel de Falla, Emiliana de Zubeldía, Gustavo Durán, and Federico García Lorca on a facsimile replica of Lorca’s historic 1906 guitar. To its rhythm, Sol Izquierdo will present the histories of exiled women artists Lene Schneider-Kainer, Olga Fisch, and Gisela Ephrussi. After settling in Latin America, these women collaborated with indigenous communities to create textiles. Sounds and textures thus weave together the experience of exile with the rich and complex heritage of their host countries.