Red Nights
a living body of work by Sydney Acosta
Published by Algun Resentimiento Desconocido al Odio
8 x 10”, 24 pages, risograph on vellum, screenprinted covers.
“This body of work, fully drenched in red, arose from one fast drawing. The image is a street scene here and then gone, a moment between two lovers. It’s a rapid feeling. She gets a text from her lover, excitedly gets off the bus or train and rushes back home, holding a mix of anxiety and pleasure within. I want to capture a feeling of desire, of fleeting adolescence. Tides of joy and anguish– coming in and going out– the atmosphere that passes between hearts– that drifts in the streets, that influences and infects us. In the streets, where decisions made are irreversible; nights are unreturning.
The colors symbolize fertility, devotion, and disintegration. Red and green. Black and white. It’s the marriage of tenderness & violence. Destruction & liberation. When I translate a drawing into a painting, I refuse to leave behind the raw feeling and rough materiality, the nightness about it.
Two hands, like divers, like lovers reaching towards each other, like praying. The first touch when he says, “Let’s compare.” The warmth of resistance.”
-Sydney
In collaboration with Eduardo Soto of Algun Resentimiento Desconocido al Odio & Christos Tejeda. With immense appreciation for Hoffman Donahue, Enrique Acosta, Amelia Bande, Irma Yuliana Barbosa, Adrianna Cole, Roberto Delgadillo Moreno, Stephanie Guerra, IOVXTC Jeanelle Mastema, Victor Rodriguez, Cielo Saucedo, Nick Sedano and Cristian Torres for bringing eros into life.
