Entre Agua Salada y Agua Dulce (Between Salty and Sweet Water), 2024-2025
Presented by Other Plans (New Orleans, LA) for Untitled Art, Miami Beach, Special Projects (Booth SP2)
Entre Agua Salada y Agua Dulce (Between Salty and Sweet Water) is
imagined as a portrait of prominent waterways that link artist Cristina
Molina’s two home territories, Miami and New Orleans. In this work, The
Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean are personified via dance and
movement as untamed dual-spirits who hold the endless memory of the most
important waterways in the American South. Prompted by these water
bodies' histories of extraction and containment, gestures informed by
rhythmic movements (carrying, holding, diverting, flooding, draining)
are choreographed and performed for the camera along the Mississippi
River in New Orleans and the Ocean-side in Miami Beach.
Presented as five-channel video installation and accompanying sculptures made from wild Mississippi River clay and glaze containing still photographs of the water and dancers, Entre Agua Salada y Agua Dulce (Between Salty and Sweet Water) draws parallels between water bodies, spiritual bodies, and physical bodies, and the corporeal water dances serve to symbolically incarnate the contested and celebratory aspects of the River and Ocean’s history and memory.