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
- Correspondences
- Extinction Rituals
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Floating Point
An installation of strings and water, real-time video, live electronic music, and butoh converge in a stunning, seamless landscape. In Floating Point Waves, LEIMAY explores the unstable and interconnected nature of our world. Every motion of the dance is reflected in the surface of water, creating waves, which in turn, affect the light and projected image. The dance emerges as an interplay between the body and water; heightening the perception of water inside our body. Projected video creates forms of light that function as visual music. The world transforms until our only standing point is instability and we are but an interconnected floating point.
- In Illo Tempore
- Kinetic Resonances
- Process Book Series
- Qualia
- Selected Floating Point
- By Art Object
- By Space
