In the days of various light: Opening Reception

“In the days of various light” by Xochi Solis On Friday, May 22, join us for the opening of In the days of various light, the latest solo show from Austin-based artist Xochi Solis. The opening reception will be held from 7 to 9 PM with light refreshments from Tito’s Handmade Vodka. All are welcome.  Scroll for more details.   WHAT’S ON VIEW Presented by Preservation Austin and Future Front, In the days of various light is the latest show from Austin-based artist Xochi Solis. “‘In the days of various light’ is a site-specific, community-centered installation by Austin-based artist Xochi Solis, reflecting on the cyclical relationships between memory, transformation, and collective renewal within the city’s cultural landscape. Across its duration, the installation acts as a counter-archive, continually reshaped as collaged layers and community offerings build upon one another, tracing how Austin’s stories are held, altered, and carried forward. Just as plants thrive within interconnected systems, Solis explores how art-making, storytelling, and collaboration sustain cultural ecosystems. Building upon Solis’s ongoing collage practice rooted in ancestral memory, Tejana identity, and the materiality of place, this installation expands from the intimate terrain of her family’s history in East Austin toward a collective ecology of stories. Viewers are invited to contribute photographs, printed materials, and ephemera that represent their own sense of Austin, transforming the work into an ever-changing, multilayered visual dialogue between past and present. Installed at Future Front’s location on Austin’s historic East 12th Street, ’In the days of various light’ grounds itself in the textures of diverse lived experiences and in the acts of care and remembrance that sustain cultural connection. As the evolving collage accumulates over time, participants’ contributions will layer atop the artist’s own materials, slowly obscuring them, just as new growth covers old soil. Solis frames the process of covering, erasing, and rebuilding as both metaphor and method, echoing ecological cycles in which what comes before continually nourishes what follows. This shifting surface reflects Austin’s ongoing remaking of itself, in which development and renewal frequently overwrite past lives and landscapes without fully tending to the histories they displace. Rather than claiming the authority of an archive, the work embraces its abstract ephemerality, suggesting that what endures most is not the object but the relational act of remembering.” Curated by Jane Hervey, In the days of various light reflects the journey of Austin-based multidisciplinary artists like Xochi Solis—weaving collaborative and iterative relationships through our city’s local culture. This exhibit has been presented as part of a special collaboration with Preservation Austin.   MEET THE ARTIST Xochi Solis XOCHI SOLIS (b. 1981) is an Austin, TX-based mixed media artist and cultural stra...