Landscapes of Care
Landscapes of Care
Curator: Valeria Meiller
Artists: Mariángeles Blanco, María Marta Fasoli & Sofía Quirno
Gallery: Abrazo Interno Gallery
Dates: August 10th - September 10th 2022
Opening Reception: August 10th, 6-9pm
This exhibition explores practices of care through the work of three Latin American artists. Maríángeles Blanco, María Marta Fasoli, and Sofía Quirno defy traditional approaches to ceramics, watercolors, and oil painting to interrogate the gendered politics of care. Their work resorts to interior and fluid perceptions of the lived environment to reflect on ecology as “oikos”, a Greek term that originally referred to the household. Coupling environmental concerns to domesticity, the show explores expectations of care both as matter and materiality. The liquid nature of moods evokes the sea through the color blue, making interior landscapes shift into waterscapes: spaces of oceanic depth where tranquility meets chaos. Paintings come together with physical objects to create a mobile territory that offers both a critique to gendered expectations of care, and a way of rearranging matter towards radical hope.
But what is care? Is it affection? A moral obligation? Work? A burden? A joy? Something we can learn or practice? Something we just do?
—María Puig de la Bellacasa
Artwork
Mariangles Blanco (ceramic - video and single paper piece):
Mariángeles Blanco, El hilo que ata el mundo, 2022, variable measurement, ceramic and rope
Mariángeles Blanco, Quizás se hubiera podido escapar, 2020, video, 5 min
Mariángeles Blanco, Untitled of the series Sweet Home, 2021, watercolor on paper, 39 x 27
Maria Marta Fasoli ( back collage paper installation piece and animation on frame):
Maria Marta Fasoli, Mar, 2021-22, watercolor and pen on paper, magnets, variable measures
Maria Marta Fasoli, Untitled, 2020, 5 min animation and digital frame
Sofia Quirno ( free standing paintings and chair with hand) :
Sofia Quirno, Hold, 2022, oil on synthetic linen, wood canvas and metal legs, 71 x 59 in
Sofia Quirno, Ok But, 2022, oil on synthetic linen and cardboard, wood canvas, linoleum, and metal legs, 80 x 71.5 in
Sofia Quirno, Wedge 2022, chair and paper/ fiber paste sculpture, 31 x 18 in
