VEDICA ART STUDIOS AND GALLERY
SK art advisory

​Parasitó opens as a bold and visceral intervention into the collective conscience, hosted by Vedica Art Studios and Gallery in collaboration with the Consulate of Mexico in Mumbai. This thought-provoking event will take place on May 9, 2025, from 6–8 PM IST, at the above mentioned venue. The evening will center around a deeply immersive performance by Fina Ferrara, a Mexico-based performance artist whose work redefines the spatial boundaries of installation art through her distinctive embodied methodology. The event also features evocative visual works by Barbara Rachko (USA) and Susan Fraser-Hughes (Canada), whose practices complement and expand upon the central theme of the show. In Parasitó, Ferrara’s use of pigment—spread, smeared, and absorbed into the architectural frame—becomes a mirror for the often-invisible traces we leave behind. The gallery itself transforms into a site of confrontation and contemplation, where every gesture is a provocation and every mark is a memory. This performance invites audiences into a somatic encounter with their own complicity in systems of dominance and decay.

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Through its raw intimacy and unflinching symbolism, Parasitó forges a critical discourse on the structures of exploitation that have come to define our contemporary era. Ferrara’s performance articulates a world where opportunism masquerades as progress and where parasitic behaviors—both interpersonal and environmental—are normalized, even lauded. The visual metaphor of a stained, transformed space invites reflection on the irreversible consequences of unchecked consumption, not only of resources but of each other. As audiences witness the artist’s body mark and alter the gallery walls, they are compelled to interrogate the ethics of their own actions: What are we taking, and at what cost? The show challenges viewers to reckon with a global condition where greed is institutionalized and the Earth is reduced to a host under siege. It provokes a necessary, if uncomfortable, dialogue about the systems we uphold through silence and habit—and posits art as a radical tool for awakening, resistance, and potential repair.