Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya
Our collaborative artistic practice as Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya is based on the circulation of imagination, embodiment, and weaving together of people, spaces, and resources. Our immigrant history–Ximena from Colombia and Shige from Japan–makes us curious about the force that surfaces when our identities collide and dismantle our notions of self and belonging.
Our practice extends from our home base at CAVE–a converted garage space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn–and across the world through interdisciplinary performances and exhibitions, educational activities, and community projects.
LEIMAY is the organizational container for our practice and a non-profit organization. LEIMAY is itself a work of art. It is constantly transforming as a living organism guided by a belief that the world is realized through experience, discovered through questioning and changed by action.
The word LEIMAY is a Japanese term symbolizing the changing moment between darkness and the light of dawn or the change between one era to another. Our practice is an opportunity to experience multiplicities, dissolve binaries, and dwell in the potentialities of the in-between. We embrace entanglement and seek transformation.
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- A Meal
- BECOMING
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Correspondences
With Correspondences, multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya offer multiple entry points for spectators to engage with questions of being, interdependence, and coexistence. The human body (performer and observer), machines, natural elements, and the urban square mingle in an entangled poetic microcosm while opening inquiries into animate life and environmental ethics.Single bodies are enclosed inside transparent chambers partially filled with sand. Bodies are donned with gas masks as they try, time and again, to rise to standing. At intervals, machines attached to the chambers trigger a blast of sand causing the performers to lose their footing, sinking them back down into the ground. This seemingly perpetual eruption repeats throughout daily performance activation periods of Correspondences, both with and without performers.
- Extinction Rituals
- Floating Point
- In Illo Tempore
- Kinetic Resonances
- Process Book Series
- Qualia
- Selected Correspondences
- By Art Object
- By Space
