Opening: Ximena Garrido-Lecca at The Luminary

Ximena Garrido-Lecca’s installation Signal Interludes opens at The Luminary on Cherokee Street, curated by Stefanie Hessler for Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time.

Developed specifically for St. Louis, Signal Interludes transforms The Luminary into an interconnected network of copper cables, industrial pulleys, suspended forms, and electronic circuits. Drawing on the city’s history as a manufacturing and distribution center, the installation considers the infrastructures that shape the movement of labor, materials, and information across regional and global networks.

Through sculpture, electricity, and sound, Garrido-Lecca examines how histories of colonial trade, industrial labor, and resource extraction continue to inform contemporary systems of communication and exchange.

The Luminary is an expansive platform for art, thought and action. Since its inception The Luminary has been a home for exceptional art that engages the pressing issues of the present. Garrido-Lecca’s commission at The Luminary traces the entanglement of trade, migration, and labor in relation to industry in St. Louis.

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