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Opening Reception: Landscapes of Care

  • The Clemente Center 107 Suffolk Street New York, NY, 10002 United States (map)

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.

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