Erik Barrios-Recendez: Betwixt and Between @ Root Division

Curated by Kristina Singleton

The Frank Ratchye Project Space is pleased to present Betwixt and Between, a solo exhibition by Root Division Studio Artist Erik Barrios-Recendez. 

Betwixt and Between confronts the social apparatus that determines one’s ability to survive. Categories of identity such as class, race, and gender shape social hierarchies and influence the perception of individual merit. What happens when inherited understandings of labor and worth collide with the realities of surviving? Actively preserving significant imagery of protest, San Francisco counter-culture, and the queer community, artist Erik Barrios-Recendez uses collage to fuse together layers that replicate the many parts that exist within dictating social systems. In this new body of work, Barrios-Recendez reflects on the emotions that surface from resisting social structures, and from confronting the reality of his existence in a queer Latino body.