2021

Patience was a site-specific installation created at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, located at the Green Street MBTA Station in Jamaica Plain, for Message Received, an exhibition curated by Jameson Johnson. Sosa utilizes the train station as a site for examining the notion of waiting as it pertains to the language of activism. Combining Spanish and English text with the aesthetics of commercial spaces in transition, Sosa manipulates the adages “La paciencia es un árbol de raíz dulce pero de frutos podridos” (Patience is a tree with bitter roots that bears sweet fruits) and “Cuando fuiste martillo, no tuviste clemencia. Ahora que eres yunque, ten paciencia” (When you were a hammer you had no mercy, now that you’re an anvil, have some patience) and invites readers to consider the paradoxical necessity and futility of waiting.