"Nayda Collazo-Llorens is not content to patiently tally the encyclopedic data of destruction. She intervenes imaginatively into life to compute an alternative that reaches the fringes of chaos but is never completely random. Accumulating a sequence of daily drawings to chart her relation to touch, sight, and sound, she conducts a practice of everyday life that includes discipline without precluding chance. Transmissions like sonar across space and into the depths of oceans gather the detritus of communication – leftover signs, headlines, notices, and emblems of authoritative pronouncements as well as gestures between lovers – bits and pieces of code reconstituted into a topographical mapping of our psyches: desires we dare to dream, fears we strive to ride, and conflicts we mark with the resonance of existence."
excerpt from Nayda Collazo-Llorens: The Consistency of Chaos by Kathleen MacQueen |
SELECTION OF CRITICAL TEXTS, REVIEWS AND ESSAYS
For a full listing please see the bibliography section in the CV >>> «La abstracción puede ser sumamente política»: entrevista a Nayda Collazo-Llorens by Sophie Large, HispanismeS, #20, 2022 >>> 10 Galleries to Visit Now in the Lower East Side by Holland Cotter, New York Times, Apr. 2018 Review of Unmappings, LMAKgallery, New York, 2018 >>> Mapping the Viewer's Perception by Jessica Santone — Companion essay published in the catalog of the exhibition Comfortably Numb, at Grand Valley State University's Art Gallery, 2017 >>> Nayda Collazo-Llorens: The Consistency of Chaos by Kathleen MacQueen — exhibition catalog PDF Companion essay/conversation published in the catalog of the exhibition An Exercise in Numbness & Other Tales, at the Richmond Center for Visual Arts, 2012 >>> My Top Art Picks for 2012 in Chicago and the Midwest by Pedro Vélez, NEWCITY, 20 Dec 2012 Review of An Exercise in Numbness & Other Tales, Richmond Center for Visual Arts, 2012 >>> Shifting Cognitive Tasks: Reading/Viewing Complexity by Jessica Santone, ArtHopper, Nov 2012 Review of An Exercise in Numbness & Other Tales, Richmond Center for Visual Arts, 2012 >>> Nayda Collazo-Llorens, LMAKprojects, New York by Laura F. Gibellini, Arte al Día International, May 2012 [ENGLISH] Review of Across Doom Hopes the Guiding Fever, LMAKprojects, New York, 2012 >>> Nayda Collazo-Llorens, LMAKprojects, New York por Laura F. Gibellini, Arte al Día International, May 2012 [ESPAÑOL] Crítica de Across Doom Hopes the Guiding Fever, LMAKprojects, New York, 2012 >>> Shifting Connections: Spring Shorts by Kathleen MacQueen, Bomb Magazine, May 2012 Review of Across Doom Hopes the Guiding Fever, LMAKprojects, New York, 2012 >>> La poesía de las paredes por Ana Teresa Toro, El Nuevo Día, 5 de agosto, 2010 El Nuevo Día Artículo sobre el proyecto Reverberación, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, 2010 >>> ESCaperucita & Little Flying Hood by José Quiroga (English version) This essay was published in the catalog that accompanied Collazo-Llorens’ project at the X Havana Biennial, 2009 >>> ESCaperucita & Little Flying Hood por José Quiroga (versión en español) Este ensayo fue publicado en el catálogo que acompañó el proyecto de Collazo-Llorens para la X Bienal de la Habana, 2009 >>> Nayda Collazo-Llorens: Navigable Zones by Laura Roulet Companion essay to the exhibition Navigable Zones, Project 4, Washington DC, 2007 >>> Navigable Zones: Nayda Collazo-Llorens by Jeffry Cudlin, Washington City Paper, May 17, 2007 Review of Navigable Zones, Project 4, Washington DC, 2007 >>> Mindscapes by Nayda Collazo-Llorens: The Poetics of Opposition by Deborah Cullen Companion essay to the exhibition Mindscapes, Space Other, Boston, 2006 >>> Nayda Collazo-Llorens – Mindscapes by Gamaliel R. Herrera Introduction essay to the exhibition Mindscapes, Space Other, Boston, 2006 >>> Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Configuraciones by Elvis Fuentes, ArtNexus, No 60, March-May 2006 [ENGLISH] Review of the exhibition Configuraciones, Galería Raíces, San Juan, 2006 >>> Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Configuraciones por Elvis Fuentes, ArtNexus, No 60, Marzo-Mayo 2006 [ESPAÑOL] Reseña de la exhibición Configuraciones, Galería Raíces, San Juan, 2006 >>> Viaje por un mundo alucinado por Haydée Venegas, El Nuevo Día, 20 agosto 2003 Reseña de la exhibición Simultáneo, Galería Raíces, San Juan, 2003 >>> A Question of Time: Comments on the Work of Nayda Collazo-Llorens by Yasmín Ramírez Companion essay to the exhibition Tiempo+Consecuencias, Galería de Arte, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, 2000 >>> Conceptualizando el Tiempo: Comentarios sobre la obra de Nayda Collazo Llorens por Yasmín Ramírez Traducción del ensayo publicado en el catálogo que acompañó la exhibición Tiempo+Consecuencias, Galería de Arte, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, 2000 For a full listing please see the bibliography section in the CV COPYRIGHTS FOR ALL TEXTS ARE HELD BY THEIR AUTHORS
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