Esa sombra
eres tú.
Cotton fabric coated with cyanotype emulsion, laid flat under the Mexico City sun, then washed in a bucket and sun-dried on the rooftop of the building where I was living on Artículo 123 in Colonia Centro. The print is a shadow the building made; the wind is what kept the cloth alive afterward.
The series was shown at KOIK Contemporary in February 2023 — four rooms, four years of fieldwork in Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Mexico, translated into cyanotype and sublimation. Sensorial curation by Juci Reis. What you are entering is the exhibition as it was installed: the wind, the prints, the four thresholds.
“Una colección de imágenes manifestadas por Harvey Castro, compuesta por instalaciones sensoriales que aluden a una experiencia o fenómeno transitorio — tiempo / espacio — configuradas como un juego metalingüístico:
yo, sombra;
tú, sombra
y espacio, sombra.”
An exhibition is a sequence of thresholds.
Enter them in turn.
Lo que dicen
esas paredes.
Four installations addressing structural political-social violence in México and Guatemala alongside acts of cultural resistance — the danzantes — building relationships of memory and territorial belonging.
Enter the room →
Sublime.
A posthumous homage to Don Ángel González — Puerto Rico, Hurricane María, 2018. Sublimation on polyester, hung within the blue F.E.M.A. plastic tarp that became roof and shroud for thousands of homes. Documented within the Para acá walkthrough.
Para acá también
vive gente.
An installation simulating the F.E.M.A.-tarp-roofed houses that remained in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María, made in dialogue with Reynaldo and the Los Olvidados portraits from Guatemala.
Enter the room →
Lluvia
de sangre.
Four installations of Guatemalan communities reshaped by Hurricane Eta and the landslide at Queja — the Maya highlands, the procession, the red room.
Enter the room →Continue into the
next room.
The Studio369 index continues with three more bodies of work — Quantum Memory, Los Olvidados, and the broader Cyanotype Works. Each room translates the documentary encounter differently.