CAMILO GODOY AT DOT FIFTYONE: CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE

Neither one nor the other, but a wound features new work and recent photographs by New York-based artist Camilo Godoy. For his first solo exhibition in Miami, Godoy furthers his research into forms of collective movement and choreography through performance, photography, and sculpture.

The centerpiece of the exhibition is a video titled Renacemos a cada instante (We are reborn at every moment), which documents a recent performance by Godoy with performers Reginald Thomas Brown, Iliana Penichet-Ramírez, Gabriel Reyes, and Sasha Ono at the New Museum in New York. The work depicts an ensemble of dancers moving through a dense fog in an evocatively lit space. Led by the sound of a cello, the dancers perform choreographies based on improvisation and inspired by mourning practices that celebrate the cycles of life and death. Their bodies move with ease, making gentle gestures that ebb, sink, and fall away. For the presentation at Dot Fiftyone Gallery, exhibition space will be similarly engulfed in a yellow-orange-hued-light, inviting visitors to feel immersed in the work.

The exhibition will also include three photographs from Godoy’s series, What did they actually see?. The haunting images depict a lone figure making dramatic poses in near complete darkness. The series reckons with the historical impact of prejudices advanced by Christian missionaries against Black and Indigenous peoples of the Americas during the 17th and 18th centuries. Godoy studied written accounts and anthropological records that described ritual dances performed by native communities near present-day Colombia in a pejorative way. With this series, he photographed himself attempting to imagine what colonizers may have witnessed based on their written descriptions. Godoy’s photographic interpretations of these ritualistic acts offer a corrective and regards them with unequivocal reverence.

Residency at the New Museum

Godoy’s residency at the New Museum has provided crucial resources to deepen his engagement with historical texts and to develop performative reconstructions. This environment nurtures a connection between contemporary art and historical education, allowing for critical discussions that challenge viewers to reconsider narratives and their implications for modern identity.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, and currently residing in New York, Camilo Godoy is a multidisciplinary artist whose work investigates politics, history, and collective. memory. He has participated in residencies at the International Studio & Curatorial. Program (ISCP), SOLARIS, Movement Research, coleção moraes-barbosa, New Dance Alliance, and Recess. His work has been exhibited in prominent institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, CUE Art Foundation, OCD Chinatown, PROXYCO Gallery, Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá, Moody Center in Houston, UNSW Galleries in Sydney, and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Quito. Godoy has. also performed at esteemed venues such as the Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.

Neither one nor the other, but a wound. Exhibition by Camilo Godoy.

Until January 31, 2025.

Dot Fiftyone Gallery. 7275 NE 4th Ave, Miami, United States.