Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021–2025 debuts recently accessioned works to El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection. Meaning “hanging out with your friends,” the Spanglish title plays on multiple definitions including socializing and installing artworks in a gallery setting. At a time when many of the communities represented by El Museo del Barrio are under attack, these multiple interpretations of the word imply both solidarity and a political call to action through holding space and kinship.
From the street to the club, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on places of gathering. It invokes questions about precarity and strength. It asks us to place ourselves within expansive cosmologies and opens communal ways of thinking. El jangueo allows us to imagine alternative ways of being together.
Jangueando features approximately 30 works across diverse media—painting, photography, sculpture, and installation—and cultural perspectives, organized into thematic clusters. Select groupings build on the museum’s historical strengths, such as Puerto Rican and Nuyorican portraiture and Latinx photography. The exhibition highlights the evolution of the museum’s collecting strategy, including renewed focus on queer artists and those of Indigenous descent.
Artists whose works will be on view in the exhibition include william cordova (1971, Lima, Peru; lives in Miami, FL, Danielle de Jesus (1987, Bushwick, NY; lives in Brooklyn, NY), Mundo Meza (1955, Tijuana, Mexico – 1985, Los Angeles, CA), Carlos Motta (1978, Bogotá, Colombia; lives in New York, NY), and Daiara Tukano (1982, São Paulo, Brazil; lives in São Paulo).
The exhibition is organized at El Museo del Barrio by Zuna Maza, Lee Sessions, and Susanna V. Temkin, of the Curatorial Department.
