https://luisarnias.net Luis Arnias Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:27:12 +0000 https://luisarnias.net en https://luisarnias.net/slow-loops Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:27:12 +0000 Luis Arnias https://luisarnias.net/slow-loops Slow Loops&nbsp; examines the connections betweeN two recent works, Bisagras and Noise Cloud through a instal­lation that loops both works together through sculpture anD drawings. Solo Exhibition https://luisarnias.net/Bisagras Sun, 11 Feb 2024 18:03:13 +0000 Luis Arnias https://luisarnias.net/Bisagras BisagrasA film exploring the enduring here and elsewhere of black consciousness. Finding a connection through the film's emulsion and my skin, Bisagras holds my experience as a person of Afro-Caribbean descent during a visit to the House of Slaves in Gorée Island, Senegal and the port of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. In these places I dare to imagine my ancestors' history of the journey of African slaves to America and draw a line that goes through me.︎ Watch Excerpt https://luisarnias.net/Puerta-a-Puerta Tue, 04 Apr 2023 21:57:55 +0000 Luis Arnias https://luisarnias.net/Puerta-a-Puerta Puerta a PuertaCo-Directed with Jessica Sarah Rinland A box is filled with aspirin, tinned peaches, toys, cereal, black beans and used clothes. It is picked up by Sr. Mario from Venus Services Express in Boston, USA. The box is added to a perfect postal tetris and after a long arduous journey eventually arrives in Falcón, Venezuela at Tía Maya’s door.︎ Watch Excerpt https://luisarnias.net/Terror-Has-No-Shape Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:47:14 +0000 Luis Arnias https://luisarnias.net/Terror-Has-No-Shape Terror Has No ShapeTerror Has No Shape follows a mysterious and grotesque creature. The film fragments the American Horror and Sci-fi genres to surface the terror of the lived personal and collective experience of racial trauma.&nbsp; Through effigy, these horrors are made material and burned.︎ Watch Excerpt https://luisarnias.net/No-Hay Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:11:54 +0000 Luis Arnias https://luisarnias.net/No-Hay <img width="1954" height="1412" width_o="1954" height_o="1412" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8119ad0e25247f63470df9059f6fb83074e77c34886f99f050da825ab7313123/egg.png" data-mid="114312735" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8119ad0e25247f63470df9059f6fb83074e77c34886f99f050da825ab7313123/egg.png" /> No Hay GROUP Exhibition <img width="3593" height="4883" width_o="3593" height_o="4883" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/499785b15a27401182fb1dfc6b77c28f2a329eac893482ef8e90da0a707c60ab/Installation.jpg" data-mid="113381529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/499785b15a27401182fb1dfc6b77c28f2a329eac893482ef8e90da0a707c60ab/Installation.jpg" /> <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25448ff51707db44731beab1af5f1e7f25cebc9c7f4d9296f6da8c85346a17f6/Installation-detail.jpg" data-mid="113381528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25448ff51707db44731beab1af5f1e7f25cebc9c7f4d9296f6da8c85346a17f6/Installation-detail.jpg" /> <img width="3648" height="5472" width_o="3648" height_o="5472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01b5c0c376a226291b0f7689be241d8198f5f3fd7f1b3e85c5a9fb92de80500c/IMG_5375.jpg" data-mid="113381525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01b5c0c376a226291b0f7689be241d8198f5f3fd7f1b3e85c5a9fb92de80500c/IMG_5375.jpg" /> <img width="3648" height="5472" width_o="3648" height_o="5472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79c6a9d298b28f70bf2db379f77fcdf02c0b71800285a212498d425e4432b7e2/IMG_5464.jpg" data-mid="113381527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79c6a9d298b28f70bf2db379f77fcdf02c0b71800285a212498d425e4432b7e2/IMG_5464.jpg" /> <img width="3648" height="5472" width_o="3648" height_o="5472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/739e70a7a32d434b3dc719a54ec87e68b0f76cb8004f4d5eb9e2d2c299bcc0c2/IMG_5456.jpg" data-mid="113381526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/739e70a7a32d434b3dc719a54ec87e68b0f76cb8004f4d5eb9e2d2c299bcc0c2/IMG_5456.jpg" /> https://luisarnias.net/Malembe Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:02:43 +0000 Luis Arnias https://luisarnias.net/Malembe MalembeThrough its rhythmic montage and mix of observational and surreal imagery, Malembe forges oblique linkages between the United States and Venezuela, conveying the strange dissociation of being uprooted, of living between places. As a knife cuts through sky, through snow, and through fruit, quasi-ethnographic footage—with its conventional markers of music, food, ritual—joins with home-movie auto-portraiture of a New England winter, communicating a sense of dislocation at once vertiginously queasy and absurdly present︎ Watch Excerpt https://luisarnias.net/drawings Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:08:18 +0000 Luis Arnias https://luisarnias.net/drawings <img width="2000" height="1134" width_o="2000" height_o="1134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd0ea3946c5be868ac32a502bcb725fdfe230629a0ba4fece803b4be093645ff/LuisPainting-15.png" data-mid="114312323" border="0" alt="︎" data-caption="︎" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd0ea3946c5be868ac32a502bcb725fdfe230629a0ba4fece803b4be093645ff/LuisPainting-15.png" /> <img width="2292" height="2342" width_o="2292" height_o="2342" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7945190d0461cd08dc3290c23b55ce6529da869ac586f51124123f182017be3/FaunaGallega.png" data-mid="113393624" border="0" alt="︎" data-caption="︎" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7945190d0461cd08dc3290c23b55ce6529da869ac586f51124123f182017be3/FaunaGallega.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1359" width_o="2000" height_o="1359" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d438c4735a3578db6dfad46a47a4deabfc58ab469ab2b0fe5d8727eccbc7020a/luis-1.png" data-mid="113394151" border="0" alt="︎" data-caption="︎" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d438c4735a3578db6dfad46a47a4deabfc58ab469ab2b0fe5d8727eccbc7020a/luis-1.png" /> https://luisarnias.net/drawings-polaroid Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:03:21 +0000 Luis Arnias https://luisarnias.net/drawings-polaroid <img width="2000" height="1594" width_o="2000" height_o="1594" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/689bbd4096ae56bf89b7090c0bc59a3abb8e33aa7d00006eeac10fb8c43a8259/luis-2.png" data-mid="114310849" border="0" alt="︎" data-caption="︎" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/689bbd4096ae56bf89b7090c0bc59a3abb8e33aa7d00006eeac10fb8c43a8259/luis-2.png" /> <img width="1340" height="1590" width_o="1340" height_o="1590" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26666d3261b005fb478e74bb5e34a8daf7093f3efad6ff010bae81e3cc96fc06/losUltimosDiasDeHoudini.png" data-mid="114310846" border="0" data-draggable alt="︎" data-caption="︎" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26666d3261b005fb478e74bb5e34a8daf7093f3efad6ff010bae81e3cc96fc06/losUltimosDiasDeHoudini.png" /> <img width="1280" height="1640" width_o="1280" height_o="1640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e3c6edd08fc1f749e0ec652234158ca3ef10d5028677def9df5def6b4ead012/LuisPainting-12.png" data-mid="114310854" border="0" alt="︎" data-caption="︎" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e3c6edd08fc1f749e0ec652234158ca3ef10d5028677def9df5def6b4ead012/LuisPainting-12.png" /> https://luisarnias.net/Ojo-Malcriado-Punky-Eye Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:08:13 +0000 Luis Arnias https://luisarnias.net/Ojo-Malcriado-Punky-Eye Ojo Malcriado (Punky Eye)A series of vignettes made up of portraits of friends and reinterpretations of personal memories. This accumulation of small gestures with surrealist tendencies generates a funny riddle that sometimes bleeds into the sublime. This film has an internal logic similar to a poem that rebels against the alphabet but is devoted to the image the words conjur.︎ Watch https://luisarnias.net/This-Must-be-the-Place Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:28:11 +0000 Luis Arnias https://luisarnias.net/This-Must-be-the-Place This Must be the Place"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." -Henry David Thoreau ︎&nbsp;Watch