THE EVERYDAY UNDER SUSPICION: THREE INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AT GALERÍA GATO
European artists Isabel Cordovil, Cristina Garrido and Gabriele Beveridge land in Lima with a show that turns the familiar into a territory of questions and revelations.
Galería Gato presents Superficies habitadas (Inhabited Surfaces), a group exhibition bringing together Isabel Cordovil (Portugal), Cristina Garrido (Spain), and Gabriele Beveridge (United Kingdom). Through practices that both converse and push against each other, the three artists question how we see, what we are taught to see, and how everyday objects can become stages for memory, desire and cultural critique.
The proposal is not a sum of individual views but a convergence of distinct sensitivities and languages. From intimacy to global consumption, the artists expose the cracks embedded in what has been normalized, inviting us to rethink what we take for granted.
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Vista de instalación "Superficies habitadas". Foto: Héctor Delgado. Cortesía Galería Gato
Isabel Cordovil turns personal and collective memory into poetic matter, with works that evoke affects, desires and recollections, suspending body and time in a universal register. Cristina Garrido examines, with irony, the institutional languages of the art system itself and turns them into a battlefield that reveals fissures in the construction of cultural value. Meanwhile, Gabriele Beveridge confronts the beauty and consumer industries through installations that oscillate between seductive gloss and the spectral, exposing the ways in which the female body has been treated as commodity.
“Superficies habitadas is more than an exhibition: it is an invitation to step into a space where the visible is fractured and remade, where the smallest gestures —collecting, diverting, reappropriating— become acts capable of transforming reality. Leaving the exhibition is not leaving untouched: one carries away the suspicion that everything we look at might be looking back,” the gallery states.
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Vista de instalación "Superficies habitadas". Foto: Héctor Delgado. Cortesía Galería Gato
Located on the historic Plaza Bolognesi, Galería Gato reaffirms its mission to connect Lima with the global contemporary art scene. With this exhibition, the space continues to establish itself as a platform that challenges structures, fosters cultural exchange, and expands the dialogue between the local and the international.
Superficies habitadas will remain open to the public until November 28 at Galería Gato, Jirón Breña 281, Plaza Bolognesi, Breña, Lima (Peru).
*Cover image: Courtesy of Cristina Garrido.
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