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The drawings, collages, plastic sheets and videos hosted by this hallway evoke different notions of \u201cenergy\u201d taken from advertisement and found photography, linking industry and sexuality, economics and mysticism. For the artist, the striking similarity in which energy is represented in such variety of (often opposing) contexts is a hint of its contemporary preeminence as a sort of global Goddess. By creating a quasi-scenographic mausoleum, the artist articulates a ritualistic experience and a calling for a political stance within a space collapsed by the similarity of energy-as-life and energy as undead commodity.\r\n\r\nThe corridor guides the flow of spectators, who are cued by the images that flank them: a sequence of hanging plastic sheets, hollowed out in organic and erotic shapes, plus a series of collages and drawings in yellow ink which recall arabesque calligraphic exercises. Not without a certain sense of humor, this series of A3-size paper sheets have the appearance of an unfolded manuscript, like the storytelling pages of voyages and adventures of mythical heroes and gods. But the main character here is not so old. As Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich claimed, \u201cenergy\u201d is a superstition in modern civic religiosity, an addicting illusion that promotes a spiritual awakening to a cosmos defined by the assumptions of scarcity.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe Fantastic Voyages of Energy\u201d is Gabriel Acevedo Velarde\u2019s third solo show at Galeria Leme and his second solo show in a private gallery since re-locating in Lima, after a 14 years period living in Mexico City, Sao Paulo, New York and Berlin.\r\n\r\nThe exhibition will be accompanied by a critical text developed by Max Hern\u00e1ndez-Calvo, curator of the Peruvian pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).\r\n\r\nAbout the artist:\r\nGabriel Acevedo Velarde (Lima, Peru, 1976, lives and works in Lima).\r\n\r\nHis work has been featured in several exhibitions, among the most recente solo shows: Pasillo de documentos e im\u00e1genes promocionales, 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru (2015); MAM Project 020, Interruptions in decrees and stages, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2014); 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