MULTI
Ariana Brown, Patricia Carrington, Fina Ferrara, Irene Antonia Diane Reece, and Natalia Rocafuerte

Virtual for Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center

MULTI is a virtual exhibit curated by The Projecto's Coka Treviño which will be featured in The ESB MACC's annual La Mujer celebration!

MULTI, curated by Coka Treviño, tries to express a few of the many dream-states that our life as Mexican and Mexican American women have internalized in and outside of contemporary colonialism, and how we're collectively trying to unlearn and find our own, authentic voices.

Poet and writer Ariana Brown; Photographer and Designer Patricia Carrington; Performer and Video artist Fina Ferrara; Contemporary artist and visual activist Irene Antonia Diane Reece; and experimental video and sound artist Natalia Rocafuerte provide us with different views of Mexicanidad and the Latinx experience.

Multidisciplinary, Multifaceted, Multicultural; Resilient Artists that have grown, reached, and accomplished trusting their own strengths, and resources. Womxn that have dared to dream a different life.

MULTI, ran April - May, 2021.
Virtual Program for the ESB Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, Tx. 78702

Ariana Brown

Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet from the Southside of San Antonio, Texas. Ariana holds a B.A. in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies from UT Austin as well as an MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. She is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes and a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion. She has been writing, performing, and teaching poetry for ten years.

​Ariana's work investigates queer Black personhood, affirmation and care for Black gender marginalized people, and loneliness. In January 2020, Ariana released Sana Sana, her debut poetry chapbook from Game Over Books. She has also recorded a digital EP titled LET US BE ENOUGH, available on Bandcamp.

Ariana has performed her work and led writing workshops across the country at venues such as the Killeen Natural Hair and Health Expo, Harvard University, Tucson Poetry Festival, and the San Francisco Opera Theatre. When she is not onstage, she is probably eating an avocado, listening to Brandy, or validating Black girl rage in all its miraculous forms.

Patricia Carrington

Multidisciplinary Visual Artist graduated from the Faculty of Visual Arts of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León.

Her work has been inclined towards photography, graphics, installation and video. The fascination for observing the world has led her to rethink the everyday as a starting point where anything can happen. Questioning reality, photographing dreams and exploring the infinite imaginary that accompanies the human, are the constant lines of work in her work.

Fina Ferrara

Mexican performer and video artist. Fina Ferrara has performed in MARCO Museum, MUNE Museum, EL CENTENARIO Museum, and FAMA Contemporary Art Fair, in Monterrey, Mexico. She has also exhibit photographic registry of her performances in ART3F International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris (2019), Gaudi Gallery in Madrid, Spain (2019 and 2020), Marbella Contemporary Art Show (2020), as well as in Puerta Rosa Museum in Mexico (2020).

Some of her video art pieces have been shown in Bogota Experimental Film Festival in Colombia, Fringe Arts Festival in Philadelphia, NoNation ArtLab in Chicago, FIVA Almagro in Spain, VIDEOBARDO in Argentina, and for Agite y Sirva Touring Festival presenting in Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Puebla, Mexico, and in Paris, France.

Fina is well known for her ability to capture the viewer ́s attention, transporting the audience to those uncomfortable places that induce to questioning social structures and standards, as well as the senseless suffering of human existence.

Irene Antonia Diane Reece

Irene Antonia Diane Reece, identifies as a contemporary artist and visual activist. Born and raised in Houston, Texas. She earned her BFA in Photography and Digital Media and MFA in Photography and Image-making. This year Reece is a recent recipient of Black Rock Senegal Residency in Dakar, Senegal and will be exhibiting at the 5th Biennale Internationale de Casablanca, in Casablanca, Morocco, and their solo exhibition Home-goings at Galveston Art Center, in Galveston, TX.

Reece’s photographic works, appropriated films, usage of text, and found objects create an insight into her world. The topics surrounding her work are racial identity, African diaspora, social injustice, family histories, re-memory, mental and community health.