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.
Select a Series
- A Meal
- BECOMING
- Benefit
- Bodies on the Brink
- Correspondences
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Extinction Rituals
Extinction Rituals is inspired by acts of remembrance celebrating the life and loss of animals, plants and environments from the places they call home—Japan, Colombia, and NY.
Extinction Rituals is an ever-evolving project, with various manifestations incorporating movement, song, spoken word, music, and visual storytelling to create short rituals honoring extinct species.
- Floating Point
- In Illo Tempore
- Kinetic Resonances
- Process Book Series
- Qualia
- Selected Extinction Rituals
- By Art Object
- By Space
