For the artist Ronny Quevedo, whose family moved from Ecuador to New York when he was just a year old, growing up bilingual was his first experience of how two separate realities could exist within one life, or one body.
“I was learning English and Spanish simultaneously, at home and at school, and there was always this understanding that it was two distinct places existing at the same time,” Quevedo said in a recent interview.
His show “offside,” on view at the University Art Museum through April 2, explores the convergence that exists within identities, histories and spaces — the tension between what is considered valuable and what is considered disposable, the play between architecture and the objects inside it, the way in which an image can be itself and, at the same time, something entirely different.
The 18 multimedia pieces, drawn from Quevedo’s work over the past decade, mine both personal and cultural narratives and inspirations. Among them are pre-Columbian architecture and Peruvian earth drawings, celestial constellations and geographical coordinates, the jazz legend Charles Mingus and the South American soccer star Alberto Spencer — and, not least, the artist’s parents.
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