Presented by CPR – Center for Performance Research as part of its Sunday Salon series, Trenzadas is an immersive memory-scape that depicts the connection between geographical spaces, the body, and identity, created by 2022 CPR Artist-in-Residence Doménica García and collaborator Damariz Damken. This two-day exhibition incorporates soft sculpture, video, audio, photography, and performance, immersing the audience in a surreal space, inviting self-reflection. Through the use of nostalgic imagery, hair, soil, and movement, Trenzadas explores the deep connection between the land and the body as well as the ways in which identities can intertwine through memory.

The installation created for CPR’s Storefront Gallery was comprised of 250 feet of woven hair and soil. García and Damken activated the installation with a 3-hour live, multi-sensory durational performance. Presented alongside the live performance installation was a large-scale video projection in CPR’s performance space which incorporates archival and original landscape footage and audio from the artists’ motherlands: México and Ecuador.

A series of photographs was also exhibited at CPR, this series was made in collaboration with photographer Meicen Meng.