THE BODY AS MEDIUM, MATERIAL AND METAPHOR
TOMAS REDRADO ART Gallery presented in Miami the fifth movement of MONTES NO VISIBLES (Unseen mountains), curated by Natalia Sosa Molina and Victor López Zumelzu. This new movement features the work of Andrea Ferrero (Peru), Julia Retz (Brazil), and Henry Palacio Clavijo (Colombia).
The artists reflect on issues associated with materials and elements of everyday life, the relationship with digestion/metabolism, and the place of the body – as support, material, and metaphor. Many of the works bring forth a non-Western thought - non-canonized knowledge - centered on metabolic and symbiotic processes as defined and self-sufficient entities. From this perspective, the body is seen as a fluid space of reflection, molded by the environment while actively capable of modifying it. The central point of these inquiries oscillates between visual and ideological languages from the modern history of Latin America, addressing stories of colonial, racial, economic, and political violence.
Andrea Ferrero's work critically considers the iconographies of power and our relationship with them. Food as a spectacle, dietary rituals as power performances and their relationship with architecture and ceremonial aesthetics have framed her most recent work. She aims to expose colonial legacies through strategies of humor and fiction, challenging dominant political ideologies by fantasizing about alternative narratives to official histories. Her work utilizes archival material, prints, molds, and digital processes such as photogrammetry and 3D modeling as raw material.
Julia Retz's work explores the relationship between architecture, body, skin, and the failure of modernity in subordinating or imposing a colonial vision of the natural environment and everyday space. She uses different moldable materials such as translucent fabrics and natural latex to evoke a sense of movement, flexibility, rupture, fragility, and even the possibility of changes in structures crystallized in rigidity and solidity. Her works depict fractured, porous, archaeological architectures, sometimes appearing as ruins or as new possibilities of understanding time, bodies, and dwelling politics.
Henry Palacio's artistic practice tensions the contradictions generated by history, economy, and popular culture by constructing narratives intimately related to the reality and representation of the political context of the Global South. His work manifests in different forms and scales - he writes on canvas with a pasta alphabet, using alphabet soup letters through systematic repetition and the use of cultural iconographies, corporate identities, logos, and symbols of popular circulation, thereby criticizing the various forms of representation and self-representation shaping different layers of reality.
The MONTES NO VISIBLES cycle is an experimentation and research program specialized in contemporary Latin American art. MNV is a nomadic program that travels to different art institutions in Argentina and Brazil, including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires (MACBA) and 25M Sao Paulo, fostering new forms of subjectivity and creative perception. Its aim is to conceptually represent a model of constantly evolving present research that opens up to a speculative and poetic horizon.
MONTES NO VISIBLES. Collective exhibition.
Until July 16th, 2024.
Tomas Redrado Art. 224 NW 71 st. Street, 33150. Miami, United States.
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