This is a collaboration with sculptor Jimena Sarno - an artist I have worked with before on projects including Score for the Near Future (composer/music director/performer) and taracatá trabaja (music director/performer). Las Tres Gracias is inspired by the missing neo-classical sculpture of the same name, which once stood in the botanical gardens of Buenos Aires and depicted the three daughters of the Greek god Zeus, believed to bestow beauty, mirth and grace upon humanity. The piece explores imperialism and the normalization of contemporary fascism through the Greek tragedy formal structure, and features a video capturing scenes from various botanical gardens. As composer for the piece, I was commissioned to set a beautiful Spanish libretto for three operatic, Spanish-speaking voices, and my own ethereal background vocals. The libretto interweaves fragments of texts written by South American revolutionaries and journalists, and explores colonialism, genocide, liberal complacency, South American creation myths and more. Let's just say it was an intense project to sink my teeth into, but very rewarding. I also served as music director, leading a trio of incredible singers - Maria Elena Altany, Ivanna Valdespino and Rosa Evangelina - as we recorded the music on and around Indigenous People's Day. Nov. 9 from 2-4pm is the reception for the installation, at Nichols Gallery, which will run until February 14, 2025.