Dashwood Projects, our gallery space at East 4th Street—between Bowery and Second Avenue just a few blocks from Dashwood Books, opened March 14, 2024.  It is an experimental space to extend the life and boundaries of our publishing program dedicated to exhibitions and selling work by artists we’ve collaborated with over the years. 



Bárbara Sánchez-Kane y Sofía Alazraki: Fortuna y Fetiche



04/09/25—05/24/25
Reception: 04/09/25   5:30–7:30PM




Bárbara Sánchez-Kane in the past five years has established herself as an important, original voice in contemporary art. She represented Mexico with the video and sculptural installation Prêt-À-Patria at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) and is represented by influential gallery Kurimanzutto in Mexico City and New York. Her work resists the traditional notions of Mexicanidad and its relationship with the feminine and masculine. Whether through fashion, performance, painting or installation, all of her work presents the anxieties and fears of daily life to question pleasure and domination within a hegemonic masculine society.

Sofía Alazraki is a photographer and set designer working across art, fashion, and film. Formed as an art historian, her practice focuses on still life photography and installation, where she builds carefully choreographed assemblages with objects and unconscious mechanisms as active characters. Her work investigates how desire is projected onto objects and shaped within systems of consumption and representation, unfolding as a multiplicity of symbolic and affective layers.

The collaboration between Bárbara Sánchez-Kane (Mérida, Yucatán, 1987) and Sofía Alazraki (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991) began as an exchange of letters between two friends. Love letters in odd formats. Like throwing a dart from one end of the world to the other.

At first glance, these photos give the impression of an exquisite corpse, sculptures made with parts that are added without a rational order (their logic is unconscious, rather). Sometimes they look like little Frankensteins made of borrowed parts to animate a strange animal; at other times they have the comic qualities of collage, of the sudden laughter provoked by the juxtaposition of two things that contradict each other. They are also erotic cyborgs, representing the fetishes of their authors. Made up of second-hand objects, they also raise the question of their past and the future that awaits them. They are sculptures made by two artists who love to manipulate religious, lesbian, and fashion symbols.

Just as the objects have changed hands and had many lives, the photographs are a testimony to the relationship between Sánchez-Kane and Alazraki, which has also gone through many stages; they are a labor of love that keeps changing shapes, an exercise in abandoning the ego to create a single and shared universe, with no clear authorship, but which cannot exist without the other.

Text by Guillermo Osorno

This show, comprised of 11 (16 x 20 inch) pigment prints by the two artists and one sculpture by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, was made in collaboration with Speciwomen, the non-profit arts organization committed to womxn and LGBTQIA+ artists. 

There will be a book published by Dashwood Books in May 2025 designed by Studio Lin in New York that accompanies the exhibition.


Fortuna y Fetiche

Book

Published by Dashwood Books
First edition
Softcover
92 pages
6.1875 × 8.25 inches


Fortuna y Fetiche

Matchbox

2.25 × 1.375 in

$3


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New York, NY 10003
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