Rachel Remick
Rachel Remick is an art historian and writer based in New York. She holds an M.A. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin where her research focused on modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx art.
Alexa West: Triple Expo
By Rachel RemickYou encounter Triple Expo, a new performance choreographed by Alexa West, in a shop window on a nondescript corner of a residential block in South Williamsburg. The performers are behind the glass, you are not.
Joiri Minaya: Im here to entertain you, but only during my shift
By Rachel RemickIm not the motherland. Im not a landscape. Im framing this conversation. Im not a flower. Im only here to work, declares a woman whose monologue acts as the soundtrack to video documentation of performances from 2017 by artist Joiri Minaya. The womans refusal of identities which connect the feminine to the landscape is emblematic of Minayas exploration of the female subject, in particular the construction of the tropical woman.