Argentinean artists Chiachio & Giannone —world-renowned for their textile work— have been invited by Isabel Croxatto, director of the gallery, to curate a group exhibition. The proposal is centered on the queer universe and gathers 20 artists from different perspectives and territories. CUIR is the Spanish term adopted as the exhibition´s title to convoke notions of family and affections. With practices in embroidery, photography, drawing, painting, video, and performance, the different artists engage in a dialogue based on transversally, generational crossing, and language experimentation, in a virtual staging that blends the domestic as well as playfulness and reality, in times of a necessary common encounter.
Aaron McIntosh | Catalina Schliebener | Chiachio & Giannone | Cristina Coll | Curtis Putralk | Federico Casalinuovo | Franco Melhose | Gabriel García Román | Joey Terrill | John Thomas Paradiso | Juvenal Barría | Matías de la Guerra | Marino Balbuena | Max Colby | Paloma Castillo | Rebecca Levi | Rodrigo Mogiz | Rodri & Lenny | Rubén Esparza | Sebastián Calfuqueo.
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CUIR I, 2021
Chiachio & Giannone ( Buenos Aires, Argentina)For the exhibition, Chiachio & Giannone have created a series of two new textile mosaics named CUIR. These pieces are, in their own words, " A tribute to the LGTBIQA+ community, the party in the storm, the joy in the storm. Two heads emerging from swampy waters, united by their beards, holding a community, to carry the voices of those who do not have one."
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TRANSITIONAL OBJECT STUDY SERIES, 2016
Aaron McIntosh (Kingsport, United States, 1984) -
UN MUCHACHO COMO YO, 2015
Cristina Coll, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1956)I am a visual artist, and also, as people say, I do performance.
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The instantaneity of a selfie or a sex image captured from the web, versus the time of embroidery. A contradiction, to give thickness and duration to something that does not have it. Knitting to occupy the time of something that will happen, lengthen it; prolong the instantaneous as a wish of humanity.
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With this embroidered portrait of my family, which represents that of many, I want to participate in the construction of a collective identity that unites us in a diverse us. Symbolizing the different forms of a family united by love and not by the stagnant social conventions imposed by, and which served, a system that produced the structures that caged and marginalized us, I express my wish that pride in who we have established in the social imaginary a free reality, with equality and respect, that includes us all.
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Banana, 2018
Franco Mehlhose, (Laprida, Argentina, 1990)Digital photography
80 x 100 cm
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Growing Sideways (details), 2016-2017
Catalina Schliebener (Santiago, Chile, 1980)My work seeks to create a third body, where the limits of the masculine-feminine, human-animal, animal-vegetable are lost, and bodies are transformed into complex machines that generate alliances with each other to affect each other.
More than narration or romantic stories, in my collages what you will find are small alliances, complicities, secret societies or lodges where different bodies affect or use each other.
