Artist Donna Huanca met her sis Richie Shazam before her expansive New York show opened to talk about Berlin summers and breaking ceilings.
in Greenpoint, is a testament to her defiance of convention. The Chicago-born, Berlin-based artist’s work transcends categorization; towering paintings, mirrored sculptures, and scent and sound works create a dreamscape only punctured by a series of performances by Huanca’s NYC family, including former roomie
HUANCA: I’m so happy to be homecoming with you here. Our friendship began many years ago at an art show and our initial conversation was that we were going to make a writing piece together. We just had an automatic kinship, and I feel like it’s a full-circle moment for us to be talking and for you to be in the show as a performer. You’ve been such a big inspiration since my days in New York.
SHAZAM: Back to the point of bringing the band back together, you have a power in bringing together so many incredible femme figures into a room. Being able to participate in your work is so incredible because the art world is highly gendered, and to see femme forces banding together and breaking down walls is so important. The end goal is always tearing down the patriarchy, as cliche as it is, and your work allows us to do it so epically and fearlessly.
HUANCA: But I’m really excited to have all the girls there that we’ve been working with for so many years. New York can be pretty spiky and hard. I love Berlin because it’s so laid back and less transactional and it’s easy to be experimental here, but New York is a vortex of action. I mean, you’re born and bred, so you’re of a different breed.
, it was so iconic. But that also speaks of our sisterhood. Whatever we have, we’re going to give it to each other. You’ve given me a lot of courage to explore the way in which I tell stories. I don’t do this singularly. I have people like you that guide me. This past summer when I came to visit you in Berlin, I was just like, wow, my sis is always turning it out. You’re so busy. You have your baby, you have your partner, and you really dedicate 2000% in your studio.
HUANCA: I love that. Everything starts with the performer’s body and the painting that I’m making on them, because I never wanted to paint on a canvas. You remember when we first met, I was doing all kinds of crazy shit, like painting on walls, making all these sculptures to pretend they were flat objects. I was trying to think about a three-dimensional room as a flat object and it being something that you walk through.
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