Jimena de la Mora’s FRAGMENTS OF RELATING unfolds through the language of painting, in works where the composed stillness of portraiture and considered arrangement of objects meet us head-on and echoes a way of seeing that is personal and unhurried. Though the pictoric traditions referenced have long been associated with entry into intimate or private spaces, the portraits and still lifes gathered in this exhibition feel distinctly imbued with a vulnerability and sensuality that allows for raw or embodied encounters.
Rooted in an exploration of contact, exchange, and connection, WHAT TOUCHES, WHAT HOLDS serves as a meditation on relationality and the alternative modes of knowing that can unfold beyond dominant systems of representation and control.
A quiet passage from the intimate and personal to the open and unknowable, From Small Trips to Unmapped Journeys invites viewers to drift through meditative painterly terrains, stroll through spaces where recollection becomes reverie, and inhabit worlds in which wandering itself becomes a quiet form of understanding the world.
This exhibition presents a collective meditation on painting as a site of transformation or locus of contemporary alchemy where abstract gestures, natural materials, sourced pigments, unexpected textures, and layered processes come together to reveal connections between the body, nature, and the act of painting itself. In the hands of these six female artists, the once “universal” language of modernism becomes situated, sensual and relational.
A Carnival of Bodies brings together María Conejo and Antoine Granier, crafting a corporeal convergence through a shared exploration of the body as a site of enunciation –a vessel through which histories, technologies, and desires speak. Engaging with Bakhtin’s concept of the carnivalesque, that centers on the inversion of social hierarchies and advocates for liberation through the celebration of bodily excess, Conejo and Granier blur the boundaries between the work and the viewer, the serious and the absurd, authority and play by inviting us to participate in a metaphoric carnival that allows multiple voices to coexist within the gallery
With All My Heart explores the notion and idea of home, relationships, rituals and family, inviting the viewer to think about one’s roots, love and the experiences that shape both life and identity. Often romantic, sometimes joyful, and frequently melancholic, the works on show journey through moments of great happiness, uncertainty and even grief. Evocative of a life lived with one’s heart on their sleeve, Jeffly Gabriela Molina and Brad Stumpf’s paintings perform a quiet and enchanting contemplation of the everyday. Engaging the audience in the intimate moments of the life they share, the quotidian becomes the substance of dreams.
