Cento (PiP)
24 x 19 feet
Acrylic paint and inkjet printed fabric
Collaboration with claudia hermano
2023

Commissioned by 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM for the Fluid Gaze exhibition curated by Rachelle Pablo (Diné)

In this collaborative artwork, Curreri and hermano join their respective material practices – textiles and photography – in an experiment of giving visual form to queer and non-binary community.  

Cento means “patchwork” in Latin and refers to the ancient Italian tradition of collage-poetry that remixes voices culled together from disparate sources. PiP, "Picture-in-Picture," is an acronym popularized by 1990's audiovisual technology that persists in newer forms in today's internet-influenced lives.  

Through this collaboration Curreri and hermano navigated intergenerational difference as it relates to picturing queerness. The portraits printed on fabric vary in scale and their position engages politics of refusal, intimacy, joy, and power. The painting holds the images – the checkerboard pattern running along the vertical edges mimic selvedge structure that allows for freedom and play in the body of a weaving. Some images are out of reach of visitors and require a repositioning of one’s body to access the image to enact politics of queer privacy and refusal that are vital yet threatened in today’s political and social climate. 

Mural painting team included Lucia Noll-Upshaw (UNM BFA 2023) and Lana Scholtz (UNM MFA 2025).