Southern Soliloquies

featuring work by Bernardo Vallarino, Ruth Leonela Buentello, and Cecilia Sierra

March7th - May 2nd, 2025

Southern Soliloquies is a powerful collaborative exhibition featuring artists Bernardo Vallarino, Cecilia Sierra, and Ruth Leonela Buentello. Through sculpture, installation, painting, printmaking, and mixed media, the exhibition offers an intimate yet urgent reflection on life in the contemporary South—where personal memory, cultural inheritance, migration, and systems of power intersect.

Southern Soliloquies centers voices that speak from lived experience. Each artist approaches the South not as a monolith, but as a layered and contested space shaped by borders, labor, ecology, ancestry, and survival. Together, their works form a collective meditation on what it means to bear witness, to remember, and to remain human within conditions of erasure and displacement.

In this place, we will return to ourselves…

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