Southern Exposure: Love Letters to Aliens exhibition (opening reception)

Please join Southern Exposure at an opening reception for our latest exhibition, Love Letters to Aliens, on Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM. Featuring a performance by Roco Cordova and a dj set by Alchemia, this Saturday evening promises a ton of art, joy, and collective inspiration.

Love Letters to Aliens is an exhibition and event series featuring work by Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang, with performances by Roco Córdova, and considers the notion of the alien in its most expansive sense—from the extraterrestrial to the intimate.

ROCO CORDOVA was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and is a vocalist, composer, producer and improviser based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cordova’s music fuses diverse influences with electronic media, chance operations, gradual processes, noise, improvisation, and timbral techniques of composition. Voice is at the core of their practice: they weave together extended techniques like throat singing, overtone singing, falsetto, and vocal percussion into live performances that edge between ritual and happening.