Within the framework of Gallery Weekend, Galería Karen Huber closes the year with two solo exhibitions that, from very different perspectives, appeal to the body’s presence and introspection. In the main room, Marc Breslin (New York, U.S.,1983) presents Personal Analysis, which uses the landscape format to invite us to reflect on the time and space of being. For her part, in the Project Room, Nicole Chaput (Mexico City, Mexico, 1995) inaugurates the exhibition Venus Atómica (Atomic Venus).

In Personal Analysis, Breslin continues his investigations into space and time through a series of paintings that seek to create an immersion in our shared relationships with the landscape and with interiority—not only that of our physical space but also that of the mental sands belonging to the psyche. After five years of visiting the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, Breslin takes us back there: a place of surrealist appearance but as real as any other. In each work the characters encounter themselvesand their reflected territories—a metaphor for the lives we all live: our private person confronting the public person, hearing our inner voice in conversation against the strangeness of hearing it on a recording. By putting the viewer in dialogue with these paintings, these lonely characters and landscapes find hope in a shared existence

Venus Atómica (Atomic Venus) is Nicole Chaput’s first solo exhibition in the gallery. She presents a series of paintings and soft sculptures that create speculative bodies of female anatomy. Through a subtle balance between the fragmentation and assembly of plastic processes—such assurgical sewing, the fluidity and texture of oil paint, and the use of luxury prosthetic accessories—the artist puts forward body mutations in dialogue with the objectification and representation of female bodies and narratives in western Art History. As though it were a response to evolutionary changes,these femme bodies deform, adapting to hostile atmospheres. Having her works coexist in an environment that oscillates between mystical temple, clinical space, and glamorous zero-gravity, Nicole Chaput imagines how the Anatomical Venuses of the Baroque and prehistoric Venus impudiques might become “Atomic” through the appropriation of their visual imaginary to create new technologies of representation from the pictorial tradition; transforming elements of both the body and the space containing it—all in an extravagant explosion of distant and intimidating temporality. The exhibition is accompanied by a curatorial text written by Roselin Rodriguez Espinosa.

— Galería Karen Huber

The exhibitions will be open to the public until December 18, 2021, and next year from January 11 to 22.

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