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La Mano Negra
Javier Barrios, Eduardo Cornejo, Alan Hernández, Manuel La Rosa, Kristin Reger, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Rubén Ulises
Curated by Yeni Mao
The inception of La Mano Negra was largely based in a conversation Rubén Ulises and I had, about the influence of anime in a younger generation of artists. Growing up looking at things like trash and pulp, anime, kung-fu, and fantasy translated into more mature ways of thinking about the supernatural and how that could be utilized to challenge power structures or provide paths from the norm. This initial conversation has since distilled into this …