BIFF Offscreen: Incantations

Friday October 10 - Thursday October 16 @ Silo City / Duende

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Incantations, HDV, 2025, 3 minute loop

The memory of a late-night, long-distance bicycle ride to the median of US 380 West Highway under a bright full moon.

To explore more of his work, visit Manuel A. Rodríguez-Delgado: Interestatal at Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (BICA) – the exhibition transforms BICA's gallery into an archive of future ruins, roadside relics, and techno-shamanic tools born from the thresholds of memory, motion, and myth.

About the Artist:

Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez–Delgado was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, and raised in a family of woodworkers, trained from an early age in the traditions of Santos (saint carvings). His works echo both the religious reliquary and the science-fiction prototype, shaped by childhood obsessions with Star Trek and the space race, as well as his lived reality in a postcolonial Caribbean and the climate-shifting American Southwest. He received his BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan.

Rodríguez-Delgado’s recent solo exhibitions include Futuros Itinerantes at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego (2024). His work has been shown at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Canary Test (LA), and Roswell Museum and Art Center (NM), among others.

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Still from Incantations courtesy of the artist.