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BAJO EL SOL at Travesía Cuatro

May 20, 2022

Artists: Maxwell Alexandre, Baseera Khan, Cosima zu Knyphausen, Mateo López, Mariela Scafati, Naama Tsabar, Yuli Yamagata

Exhibition title: BAJO EL SOL

Venue: Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain

Date: May 12 – July 30, 2022

Photography: Pablo Gómez-Ogando / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Travesía Cuatro, Madrid

This exhibition is based on the series of filmed conversations Travesía Cuatro launched during the summer of 2021, titled BAJO EL SOL. BAJO EL SOL is a digital space that seeks to generate a critical and creative routine through voices that analyze and transform today’s world and who expose or claim alternative social, intellectual, artistic and technological models.

In order to accompany this project, we have conceived a program of exhibitions that starts with this show at our Madrid gallery.

The exhibition focuses on the bodily potentials “of” and “in” the artists’ works as instruments to deconstruct the processes of artistic creation from a Eurocentric system and from the language of art. The aim is to reveal fragments of reality from diasporic positions and therefore enunciating different desires for contemporary life. Whether it is through the representation of their own bodies and those of others, of hearing and touch, of the reorganization of everyday objects or the reformulation of historical narratives, each of these artists speaks to questions surrounding broader social narratives that build our current reality.

BAJO EL SOL, 2022, exhibition view, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid

MAXWELL ALEXANDRE, A lua quer ser preta, se pinta no eclipse, 2012 – 2021, Latex, grease, henna, bitumen, dye, acrylic, vinyl,graphite, ballpoint pen, coal and oily stick on manila paper, 320 x 476 cm