Rafa Esparza: Juntxs

In “juntxs”, Los Angeles–based artist Rafa Esparza brings together sculpture, painting, video, sound, and installation to explore how care, desire, and resistance endure amid structural violence, surveillance, and exclusion.

Working with adobe – an ancestral material imbued with memory, body, and land – Esparza constructs affective landscapes where intimacy and collectivity coexist. Domestic, queer, and subterranean spaces become refuges and meeting points where communities reorganise beyond institutional control.

“juntxs” traces a narrative of resistance and interdependence, proposing care as a political force and the act of building together as a form of survival.