NoBody
A collaboration show with Dar San Agustin & Valeria Costa. With additional photographs by Francis Ybanez.
Presented as part of the CalArts:Reef Residency, Anti-Frieze+ Event.
Feb. 28 - March 30, 2026
ANTI-FRIEZE+ LA will defrost TEN select rooms on the REEF’s 12th floor to display original happenings of emerging, local artists working across modalities in collaboration with the CalArts REEF Residency.
A showcase rooted in time-based experiences, the ANTI-FRIEZE+ LA work in progress performances recontextualize and reinterpret the “classic” art influence, multi-disciplinary movement practices, and cross-sector collaborations in the once, commercial wholesale furniture showrooms of South Broadway.
Looking to further fill your art engines with a splash of extra hi-performance coolant? Check out ANTI-FRIEZE+ LA’s PLUS PLACES, a series of gallery happenings where the visual evokes, engages and stimulates the body in form and experience.
Additional photo documentation taken by Rafael Hernandez
NoBody is a two-person exhibition created by Dar San Agustin and Valeria Costa. Each work considers the body as a vessel shaped by violence. Objects stand in as the subject, absorbing harm, desire, and labor over time.
Bodies are stripped of anatomy and rendered into non-form, altered beyond their original function.
Transformation is not offered as resolution, but as a process that leaves residue. Violence operates materially through acts of containment, repetition, staining, encasing, and piercing. These gestures function as evidence of what bodies are forced to carry.
The exhibition holds tension between transformation lived within the body and transformation externalized through objects. Nobody asks what happens when bodies are made to contain more than they should, and what it costs to keep holding. The work does not resolve this overflowing loop. Survival here is cumulative and uneven, marked by continuous damage. The body persists in alteration, reduced to the container. Is it still a body?