Rahab

Author: Naivy Pérez

Title: Rahab

Year: 2013 – 2018

Genre: Performance

Duration: Variable

Materials: Red Cord (woven by the artist), Fallowmee App, iPhone 5

STATEMENT

From February 8, 2014, to March 23, 2018, I lived in the United States under the condition of an emigrant. During these years, I carried out Rahab¹ in New York City, an action in which I wore a red rope² that I carried with me at all times. Simultaneously, through GPS, my location within the city was shared in real-time via my website, social media, and in two group exhibitions held during those years in Boston and Chicago, under the name of Cuban Virtualities.³ This action concluded when my legal status in the United States changed.

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¹ I establish a reference to the biblical character Rahab (Joshua 2:1-24), shifting the symbolic position of the spy and survivor to that of the modern-day immigrant.

² I use the red cord as a mark or sign of salvation, appropriating its biblical connotation.

³ 2013 – 2014 “Cuban Virtualities”, Tufts University Art Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, (Boston, USA) / 2014 – 2015 “Cuban Virtualities: New Media Art from the Island II” Sullivan Galleries & Betty Rymer, Aidekman Arts Center (Chicago, USA).