A Galeria Leme presents Between Today and Yesterday to Speak of Tomorrow, artist Rebeca Carapiá’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show brings together experimental works from recent years, including suspended sculptures, drawings, and iron oxide on canvas, which incorporate earlier research and point to possible developments in the artist’s poetics. On the opening day, October 28, at 1 pm, the artist will lead a public guided tour. The exhibition remains on view through January 24, 2024.
In her body of work, Carapiá presents sculptures with sinuous forms in a group of works that consolidates, experiments with, and points to the complexity of her creative process. The artist creates her own visual vocabulary through ink drawings, which resonates throughout the various series included in this exhibition.
“This exhibition is an encounter with materiality, the body in the world, exhaustion, desire, and how all of these elements are situated in the present,” the artist comments.
The arrangement of the works in the exhibition space alludes to the studio environment and encourages dialogue between different forms and languages. A large horizontal iron sculpture extends along one of the gallery walls, while other smaller vertical sculptures hang in suspension, interspersed with small canvases that translate the temporality of materiality within the artist’s creative process.
“In Between Today and Yesterday to Speak of Tomorrow, I open up and reveal my process and path. It is an artist’s exercise, one that insists on permanence and on the lived experience in the studio, so recently found. Here I engage with the exhaustion, excess, and matter that are so present in this exhibition,” Carapiá adds.
