120 S Vignes St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
Saturday, April 5 at 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Ends Apr 19, 2025
It is said that the Underworld has 9 layers, and even though truly we don't know in which layer we find ourselves right now, our story tells of the ‘Four past ages’ or ‘Suns’. It is said that the world was destroyed when the Sun was thrown out of the sky. Each age was presided over by a different god, who later destroyed it: the goddess of water destroyed the 4th Sun by blood, causing the heavens to fall down. The 5th Sun was created when Ometeotl’s four sons raised the sky. The ‘5th Sun’ was the age of the present, and the Aztecs performed constant rituals to ensure that the cosmic balance was maintained.
Perhaps it was at this given moment in time that Tazolito was born. Tazolito first appears in the novel Mulata by Miguel Angel Asturias, after the god of lust AND corn- Tazol (lol)- impregnates Catalina, Yumi’s wife. He is taken in as a beloved bastard although he is in fact, as the son of Tazol, half god half human, half wicked half…half? Half brother of the Seven Macaw, the beloved 凤凰.
Activated through Four Acts or Four Suns, the existence of the bastard reimagines the mixing blood, the text that spills, dripping in puddles of dirty translations and mappings transatlánticos and unassimilated imaginations.
Sun Worship #3 is a bastard compendium, transcribing the sources without replicating the original. The works presented in the exhibition are attempts at the translation, deliberate reinscribing and erasure of mythology. Each of these translations foretells a mutation reinforcing not the voice of a single one or the original, but the echoed sound of twirled tongues, folklore and spit in unison. It disavows the claim to be the originary original. It kneels and confesses to be a dirty translation in its very becoming, such as the day and night when each day becomes longer -by the minute- while each night becomes shorter-by the tic. toc.