Curator Walkthrough: "Seguimos: Contemporary Art in Costa Rica"
Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B3, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Saturday, April 20 at 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
Ends Apr 20, 2024
Seguimos: Contemporary Art in Costa Rica is a group exhibition co-curated by Hannah Sloan and Craig Krull Gallery featuring the work of a highly diverse and intergenerational roster of thirteen Costa Rican artists, the majority of whom are highly regarded in Central America, but have never exhibited in the United States. The show runs through May 18. A curators walk through with Hannah Sloan and Craig Krull is scheduled for Saturday, April 20 at 11AM – coffee and donuts will be served. Seguimos features installation, video, photography, painting, works on paper and sculpture. The artists reflect a spectrum of interests and concerns facing Costa Ricans today, and position themselves within the broadest developments in contemporary art, with particular focus on the topics of body, identity, and place. Five of the artists identify with the queer community. All of the work is inspired by the beautiful and complex country the artists are from. The title Seguimos comes from an installation of 120 works on paper by conceptual artist Priscilla Romero-Cubero, who registered the liquid latex imprints of the fingers of dozens of people, then printed them in groups of four with diagonal tally marks slashed across them. The tallies suggest the continual counting of deaths, victims, injustices, the disappeared and the silenced. Seguimos, translated as “we continue” or “we keep going,” implies lives and memory that refuse to be forgotten. The exhibition includes work by: Adrián Arguedas Ruano, Alina González, Allegra Pacheco, Christian Wedel, Isaac Loría, Javier Calvo, La Cholla Jackson, Lucía Howell, Luciano Goizueta, Matias Sauter Morera, Mimian Hsu Chen, Priscilla Romero-Cubero and Valiente Pastel. Pictured: Allegra Pacheco, Untitled, 2023, From the series Blood Sugar, Oil on canvas, 10 x 11.5 inches