The Great Mother
I am a multidisciplinary artist working in performance, poetry, and textile. My practice is a meditation on deep listening and remembering — exploring communication and memory as pathways to connection, healing, and collective transformation.
"KLASSCFI" @
ASPEN IDEAS CLIMATE 2024
March 11th, 2024 // Miami, FL // Miami Beach Botanical Garden
KLASSCFI- a collaborative multi sensory art installation & performance by Asser Saint Val, with performance artist and conduit Jessica Freites, opera singer, Thandolwethu Mamba, musician - Micheal Gil, musician - Paloma Dueñas, designer - Shunelle Porcena, and body painter - Adrienne Tabet
Aspen Ideas: Climate2024 @ Miami Beach Botanical Garden
With support from: Miami-Dade County, Arts305Resilient, Miami Beach Art and Culture, and DVCAI
MAY YOU BE BLESSED. MAY ALL YOUR RELATIONS IN ALL DIRECTIONS OF TIME AND SPACE BE BLESSED.
"THE GREAT MOTHER"
November 28th, 2022 // Miami, FL // The Adrienne Arsht Center
A multi-sensory art installation by Asser Saint Val in collaboration with performance artist and conduit, Jessica Freites; body painter & energy healer, Adrienne Tabet; bass-baritone opera singer; J’Von Brown; energy sound healer, Estefania Andrea; fiber artist, Evelyn Politzer; and The Nago Band (Emmanuel Q, Azibe, and Kiki).
LOVEISLOVE MIAMI + SOUL SANCOCHO
October 23rd, 2022 // Miami, FL // The Miami
LOVEisLOVE is produced by Sybarite Productions and for this year's festival Soul Sancocho was invited on as a contributor. Our co-founder of SoSa, Jessica Freites served as the hostess with the mostess :) as well as community engagement partner for the event and our very own CaRaSi performed alongside an amazing roster of dancers and musicians. We are so grateful to have been part of LOVEisLOVE and can't wait to do it again!
MAY YOU REMEMBER.
SOUL SANCOCHO
June 25th, 2022 // Miami, FL // The Backhaus
"A Celebration of LIVING."
Soul Sancocho is an experience of divine celebration, narrative reframing and community bridging co-founded, organized and produced by Jessica Freites and CaRaSi and held at The Backhaus. For our first installment Jessica served as host and created two large scale interactive sacred altar installations and CaRaSi provided a top tier intimate musical performance along with DJ Ganesh as our sound selektah for the eve.
SoSa is here to embody awareness and deep gratitude to the self-expressive gifts that have flourished within black and brown communities; from the indigenous to the underground. Gifts such as song, music and dance that are fundamental pathways for joy, release and healing. As cultural gatekeepers of expression, we invite others to participate and engage with these sacred tools, themselves and one another.
"AGUA" @ ASTROLOGOS
November 27th, 2021 // Miami, FL // WYN317 // Astrologos - Adrian Avila Solo Show
A performance and installation by Jessica Freites. This piece explores the distillation of movement and embodiment of relative stillness in order to engage in a conversation of presence.
The subject is an archetype of Yin personified. As the sound of waves and womb pulsate through the air, she makes her way, slowly, to her shrine, full of numerous vases of water. She proceeds to meditate and engage the audience solely through the power of embodiment for an extended period. At the sound of a bell, black clothed beings come to deconstruct the visceral landscape, taking the transmuted contents of water and offer them as a sacrament to the land.
All things are in motion always, even in the apparent mirage of complete "stillness". As an element, both literally and metaphorically, water holds and communicates that which is often neglected or unseen by passive observers. It acts as a conduit to and also demonstrates the notion of the constant subtle movements and undercurrents present in our reality. In one ripple we see the infinite potentiality in the nuance of awareness.
AND SO IT IS.
"NADIR"
August 2019 // Miami, FL // Institute of Contemporary Art
“Nadir” is a multidisciplinary sound, installation and poetry project that explores the concept of ancestry. Over the course of 6 weeks Teaching Artist Jessica Freites lead students using storytelling, installation and performance to journey through ideas surrounding their identity and influence on the future. Grounding together in community students utilized their experiences to ask, "What lessons do we have to share for future generations?"
