JUNTXS
Rafa Esparza
Rafa Esparza
(b. 1981, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) received is a multidisciplinary artist born and based in Los Angeles. His practice, centered on performance and the use of materials such as adobe, explores history, memory, and the genealogies interrupted by colonization. Through site specificity, materiality, and the body, Esparza questions structures of power, dominant narratives, and collective forms of inhabiting and resisting.
He has presented his work at institutions such as the Hammer Museum, the Whitney Museum, REDCAT, and LACE, and has been awarded grants from the California Community Foundation, Art Matters, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation.
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05.02.2026
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31.05.2026
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In juntxs, rafa esparza brings together sculpture, painting, video, sound, and installation to explore how bonds of care, desire, and collective resistance are formed amid structural violence, surveillance, and exclusion. Centered on adobe—an ancestral material charged with memory, land, and communal labor—the exhibition proposes care as a material and political practice.
Across three interconnected spaces, bodies, architectures, and objects merge into affective landscapes that operate beyond institutional visibility. Domestic, queer, and clandestine environments function as sites of refuge and reorganization, where intimacy and collectivity become strategies of survival. Figures emerge as forms of architecture, holding space when gathering is threatened or erased.
In juntxs, care is not framed as sentiment, but as something built, sustained, anddefended together—through shared labor, embodied presence, and collective resilience.
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Rafa Esparza
Rafa Esparza
(b. 1981, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) received is a multidisciplinary artist born and based in Los Angeles. His practice, centered on performance and the use of materials such as adobe, explores history, memory, and the genealogies interrupted by colonization. Through site specificity, materiality, and the body, Esparza questions structures of power, dominant narratives, and collective forms of inhabiting and resisting.
He has presented his work at institutions such as the Hammer Museum, the Whitney Museum, REDCAT, and LACE, and has been awarded grants from the California Community Foundation, Art Matters, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation.
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