A Refusal to Abandon

Authors

  • Alex Dolores Salerno

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2026.17.2.6337

Abstract

Tracing connections between their relationship with coffee, the coffee industry, and their installation work, Salerno envisions a collective refusal to abandon those entangled in ableist ecologies- human, land, and the more-than-human. Their work semilla santa is an evolving site-specific and multi-sensory installation using chains of unroasted and roasted coffee beans reminiscent of prayer beads to open up space for critical thinking around our relationships to overconsumption, ritual, land and labor.

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Author Biography

Alex Dolores Salerno

Alex Dolores Salerno is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY) in Turtle Island in Abya Yala. Their practice is informed by queer, trans and crip/disabled communities, and anti-capitalist revolution that centers interdependence and cultivates connection to the earth. Salerno exhibits widely at institutions such as Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), O–Overgaden (Copenhagen), Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and the Ford Foundation Gallery (NYC). They received their MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design (2019) and they have been awarded a Wynn Newhouse Award (2022) and an Art Matters Foundation Artist2Artist Fellowship (2023). Their work has been featured by press and publications such as Art in America, NYU Press, and Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art.

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Published

2026-10-31

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2026): Eco-Crip Cultures: Disability and the Environment

Section

Creative Writing and Arts

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