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Adrián Arguedas Ruano . Alina González . Allegra Pacheco . Christian Wedel . Isaac Loría . Javier Calvo . La Cholla Jackson . Lucía Howell . Luciano Goizueta . Matias Sauter Morera . Mimian Hsu Chen . Priscilla Romero-Cubero . Valiente Pastel
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Seguimos curated by Hannah Sloan and Craig Krull Gallery, features installation, video, photography, painting, prints and sculpture by an intergenerational group of thirteen Costa Rican artists, many of whom are highly regarded in Central America, but have never exhibited in the United States. The artists in this exhibition reflect a spectrum of interests and concerns facing Costa Ricans today and position themselves within the broadest developments of contemporary art, with particular focus on the topics of body, identity and place.
The title “Seguimos” comes from an installation of one hundred twenty works on paper by Priscilla Romero-Cubero, a conceptual artist and researcher in the fields of graphic art and contemporary body practices. Translated as “we continue” or “we keep going,” “Seguimos” is a striking example of the artist’s signature printmaking technique, developed during the course of her PhD studies. Latexgraphy, employs liquid latex to register the imprint of human fingers and other body parts onto a reusable matrix. These fragments of rubber, resembling torn balloons, are inked and transferred onto delicate Japanese paper. The matrices and corresponding “prints,” represent an archive of people the artist has encountered, and while highly personal imprints of skin, they offer a record of human life without reference to sex, gender, nationality, age, religion or economic status. “Seguimos” is a large sequence of imprints, where groups of four fingers are slashed through by a diagonal tally mark. According to the artist, this reference to counting “appeals to memory, to sequence and also to resistance. We continue counting the days and nights, the deaths, the victims, the injustices, the disappeared and the silenced; we continue counting and discounting those present and absent…Thus, life and memory add up events that refuse to be forgotten, to be part of a past hidden and veiled by history.”
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Laura Grover
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LDG@lauragrover.netBridget Leslie
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