David Correa is the third commissioned artist of Season Eight—a season of world-building in all its forms.

Blending performance, film, poetry, object, and imagery, Correa’s practice presents surreal narratives exploring and satirizing man’s existential relationship to the tool and the self. Contextualized through collective aspects of Latin American situationism, he informs these narratives by referencing political theory, mythology, history, and philosophy, creating networks of ideologies that anchor the Latin laborer as an absurd figure.

These networks are utilized as a foundation for storytelling, depicting narratives that blur the lines between operator and tool, task and purpose. Through time-based work, Correa’s presentation of ephemera as sculpture deepens this investigation by humanizing and memorializing the tool. Likewise, his “non-ephemeral” objects act as contextual reference for the narrative.

We invite you into Correa’s world. Here, the experience is the experience.

Learn more about Correa’s practice in his interview with QUEUE Gallery.