Roshni Kavate a Violeta Ortega Navarrete

Final performance: El Cuerpo Saborea/ The Body Savors

The performance by Roshni Kavate and Violeta Ortega Navarrete will be our shared farewell gesture – a movement inscribed into the space as a memory, marking our closing of the exhibition TOPOLOGIES OF RESISTANCE: ALTARS OF BODY MEMORY PLACE.

El Cuerpo Saborea is a quiet offering. A space where the body meets memory through the senses. Nettle, cardamom, silk, poppy seed, saffron, and cacao are not just ingredients, they are reminders. Of land. Of lineage. Of care.

This is a slow ritual. A practice of paying attention. Movements repeat. The air holds scent. The body listens. Nothing is rushed. In this stillness, the everyday becomes something more.

The work does not explain. It invites. It trusts that the body remembers, not just through words, but through warmth on the skin, a flavor on the tongue, a feeling you can’t quite name.

El Cuerpo Saborea is a soft return. To what we already know.

More about the exhibition: https://www.kair.sk/roshni-kavate-a-violeta-ortega-navarrete/

ROSHNI KAVATE (US/IN) and VIOLETA ORTEGA NAVARRETE (MX) focuses on recognizing ancestral knowledge and their languages as pathways for healing the consequences of capitalism. These languages often manifest as processes—in their case, the slow creation of textiles that give form to intangible events, with the power to restructure and heal them. As artists from ancestral and indigenous cultures of India and Mexico, they are developing a new artistic language that unites their bodies, memories, and environment.

The residency program is supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council. The Slovak Arts Council is the main partner of this project.