Solo exhibition: “La Huida”

We are pleased to present La Huida, a solo exhibition by Peruvian artist C.J. Chueca, who resides in New York, at VIGILGONZALES Buenos Aires (Diagonal Norte 628, Buenos Aires). The opening will take place this Friday, August 23rd, at 5:30 p.m., and the exhibition will be open to the public during the gallery's regular hours until October 4th. The exhibition includes a gallery text by curator and critic Florencia Portocarrero.

The horizon, a recurring element in C.J. Chueca's work, is something that all individuals seem to have internalized. Its depiction aligns with the narrative of emergency migration, and along with airport runways, it symbolizes both our limits and what we consider possible and attainable. Much like where the earth and sky meet, or the sensation of being about to dive into a body of water, every horizontal line places us in an interstice that condenses the meaning of a space in transition.

La Huida explores the nuances of this duality, in an attempt to synthesize the space we always inhabit: between the light of day and the shadows of night, in the transition between difficult and manageable moments. However, at the very moment of opening—during the "blue hour" and the "golden hour"—the pendulum's motion finds calm, clarity, and sublimation. Working with the common, far from being futile, is a fundamental characteristic of conceptual art: addressing that which holds collective significance allows us to engage in dialogues that go beyond, yet involve, the personal.

C.J. Chueca | Born in 1977, Lima, Peru. Lives and works in New York City.

Her history as a perpetual immigrant has led her to explore the concepts of home, territory, transition, multiculturalism, uprootedness and loneliness. She has participated in “A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection” curated by Amethyst Rey Beaver and Eva Thornton at the Taubman Museum of Art; “XX (6 female Latinx artists working in abstraction)” at LatchKey Gallery in New York; ̈Landmark ̈ at KM0. 2 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Art Souterrain in Montreal with an installation curated by Dulce Pinzón at the Palais des Congres, “There’s Something Inedible in the Throat. Poéticas antipatriarcales y nueva escena en los años noventa” curated by Miguel López at ICPNA-Lima, “La fuerza del agua” with Latchkey Gallery at Core Club NYC, “Somos La Noche y El Día” solo show at Vigil Gonzales Galería (2019), “Crónicas Migrantes, Common stories between Peru and Venezuela” curated by Fabiola Arroyo at MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, “I am the river behind the wall” solo show at Mulherin Gallery in Toronto (2018), “Dos Cielos Azules/Two Blue Skies” at ICPNA (2018).

ABOUT _VIGILGONZALES

_VIGILGONZALES is conceived as a contemporary art gallery, with spaces located in the Peruvian Andes and Buenos Aires, in which it aims to promote the agency of artists within the Latin American and global scene. The gallery is conceived as a site for research and cultural, disciplinary and knowledge exchange. Within the framework of a global artistic production where the questions and motifs raised are part of a common unknown, _VIGILGONZALES promotes the exhibition of artists based in Latin America and the United States. The purpose is based on making visible the "dialects" -marked by the regions where the artists work- that make up the contemporary language of art. Like the artists that make up our roster, _VIGILGONZALES has established itself as an active node within the international scene.

On the cover: C.J. Chueca: La Huida (_VIGILGONZALES Buenos Aires)/ Installation view

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