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eso malflor's debut poetry chapbook, EVERYTHING IS IN SEARCH OF EQUILIBRIUM, is an exploration of the body - body as flesh and body as earth. It contends with ideas of the permeability and permanence of the perceived borders among those surfaces. Navigating excavated forms such as bone and hair and rivers and tectonic plates, eso expresses how they all exist in a state of interconnectedness and fluidity. As eso writes in Equilibria, ""all bodies are in transition / the earth is a body in transition."" Such a statement offers acknowledgement and compassion for bodies that have been subjected to conformity, instead giving them the agency to be whatever it is that time and self call them to be. Inviting the Mexican and Norwegian aspects of their heritage to partake in these searches, eso also crosses boundaries out of the English language in this debut, allowing a tenderness toward these terrains that spans their ancestral lineage, reminding us how all these elements are a collective ecosystem in continuous conversation.

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eso malflor (b.1994) is a queer, non-binary, trans, first-generation Mexican-Norwegian-American artist from Houston, Texas. Their practice is rooted in all that is trans: transsexual, transformative, transitional, trans-national and transitory. Through a variety of media, they challenge the pathologizing and demonizing of queer and trans bodies by drawing attention to the inherent transness ofour natural world. Their work has been recognized with support from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metro Regional ArtsCouncil, Foundation for Contemporary Art, CACHE Creative Exchange Fund, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. eso's work isin the collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and private collections across the US. They are currently based between Chicago IL, and Trondheim, Norway.

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