On display from September 14 – October 25, 2025 in The Sunroom at Central Library, Conquest, Identity, and the Violence of Belonging, by Uriel Guerrero-Aconcha.
About the Exhibit
"This work explores Latin America's history, marked by conquest, forced encounters, and the violent merging of worlds. As descendants of the colonized and colonizers, we are the illegitimate children of history, born from plunder and brutality, denied by the fatherland. This wound of non-belonging persists today, deepened by postcolonial realities and the ongoing violence of capitalist imperialism."
About the Artist
Uriel Guerrero-Aconcha is a visual artist based in Nova Scotia. Since 2001, his creative practice has unfolded quietly and persistently, often in the margins, unseen, undocumented, and, for many years, deliberately destroyed. With no formal degree but four years of Visual Arts studies in Colombia, Guerrero-Aconcha's work is shaped by an intuitive need to create, question, and explore power, belonging, and memory.
He immigrated to Canada in 2005 and settled in the Halifax region in 2022, where he has recently begun to share his work publicly. Guerrero-Aconcha refers to himself as a “phantom artist," an unseen maker, moving at the edges of visibility, compelled to create as a way to engage with the world. His body of work spans performance, printmaking, sculpture, and writing, often incorporating unconventional materials like plastic, asphalt, and corn flour.
The Sunroom is made possible by the generosity of Margot and Layne Spafford.
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