ALEJANDRO JUSTIZ
ALEJANDRO JUSTIZ
A new series of 70 Download & Donate digital drawings and a short film.
OCCASIONAL LANDSCAPES
SAMUEL RIERA
We join the artist on a journey of discovery to a world where precise, multi-layered, dimensional paper collages, often cut from fashion magazines, spring to life as the thriving inhabitants of Planeta Sandra. She manages to blend the whimsical and the sensual, the threatening and the sublime as she recounts the mythological folklore of a primordial world not that far from our own.
With an explorer’s eye and a botanist’s discipline, Sandra meticulously catalogs each Sandremios by genus and species as specimens deserving of further study.
In these collages, I deconstruct everyday forms to create new narratives.
Through the use of nature, science and whimsy, I invent new landscapes and environments in a visual language that is uniquely my own.
-Sandra Cordero
As curator and philosopher, Luis Ramaggio, observes, “As any respected expeditionist, she quietly observes and classifies. As a visionary. As a hungry expert. As a mentalist. Lurking around her own self, and wandering through her habits and personality, Sandra discovers that she herself is a world.”
We join the artist on a journey of discovery to a world where precise, multi-layered, dimensional paper collages, often cut from fashion magazines, spring to life as the thriving inhabitants of Planeta Sandra. She manages to blend the whimsical and the sensual, the threatening and the sublime as she recounts the mythological folklore of a primordial world not that far from our own.
With an explorer’s eye and a botanist’s discipline, Sandra meticulously catalogs each Sandremios by genus and species as specimens deserving of further study.
In these collages, I deconstruct everyday forms to create new narratives.
Through the use of nature, science and whimsy, I invent new landscapes and environments in a visual language that is uniquely my own.
-Sandra Cordero
As curator and philosopher, Luis Ramaggio, observes, “As any respected expeditionist, she quietly observes and classifies. As a visionary. As a hungry expert. As a mentalist. Lurking around her own self, and wandering through her habits and personality, Sandra discovers that she herself is a world.”
AILEN MALETA
RIGO (JOSÉ RIGOBERTO RODRÍGUEZ CAMACHO)
VAGABUNDUS DREAMS
Please stop by to see our new window gallery featuring several new entries to the world of Planeta Sandra. In the colorful Vagabundus' minds we find their dreams are in black & white. These works, done in quarantine, are a marked departure from the visual jubilance of her previous work.
Exhibition on view from 02/03/2021 thru 02/14/2021.
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
ON VIEW: 05/12/21 – 06/27/2021
ALEJANDRA GLEZ
MY HOUSE IS MY BODY
Initially a virtual exhibit by featuring 14 limited edition prints and a video performance conceived and executed during the quarantine of 2020, the show has been expanded to include a unique edition of 8 dye sublimation prints on aluminum panels.
In collaboration with and essay by Dayneris Brito.
VIDEO
Title: I, me, myself
Technique: Performance - Video
Camera: Alexis Glez
Editing & Sound: Bosito
IMAGES
15.75" x 15.75"
15.75" x 15.75"
15.75" x 15.75"
15.75" x 15.75"
15.75" x 15.75"
15.75" x 15.75"
15.75" x 15.75"
15.75" x 10.75"
15.75" x 13.75"
15.75" x 10.75"
15.75" x 12"
15.75" x 11.5"
15.75" x 12.25"
15.75" x 9.75"
THE MULTIPLE INSIGHTS OF ALEJANDRA GLEZ
DAYNERIS BRITO
The current circumstances we’re all struggling with nowadays, have brought into light new ways of seeing ourselves as subjects and individuals. Social distancing, loneliness, lockdown and solitude are just some of the issues to deal with in these latest days, since we’re not allowed to go outside our homes anymore, while our daily routine has been totally affected due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The worldwide situation that asks us to be enclosed, is certainly limiting human beings’ social activities. Suddenly, we find ourselves facing an unexpected free-time that in many ways is filled with inspiration and emotional stimulus. To contribute to this purpose, art institutions and exhibit spaces are turning to the online platform, in order to provide all a virtual refuge where art keeps going.
My house is my body consists as an ongoing exhibition of the Havana-based visual artist Alejandra Glez. It is composed by photographs and a video-art installation, aimed to recreate through Alejandra’s insights, the body language as a reflection of lockup and imprisonment felt mostly by female bodies. Taking into account that the current condition is affecting not just women’s physical health, but their mental health as well, the artist is encouraged to underline the many parts of the female body, that according her closer friends are meant to represent anxiety, sensation of lockdown, angst and fear. We’re referring to breasts, the feet, the hair, the mouth, the fingers, the hands and so on.
It seems Alejandra’s images have the intention of exploring what it is to be within our own body looking out; the moments of intimacy when you can actually exist as a woman in all your contradictions and complications, both physical and mental. How many times do we feel free from our body? Are we enclosed within our homes or within our minds? Which parts of our body make us feel trapped? These are some of the questionings that eventually show up while discovering her complex visions on such controversial issues. Likewise, this virtual show makes us aware of a shared visual experience, in which we feel comfortable –or uncomfortable- with our own bodies.
Such as, we wanted to define the results obtained by the artist’s insights as “practical exercises in time of isolation”, rather than finished complex art works, given that what really matters is the concept behind each shortlisted shot. However, the scheme prompts a reflection on, and awareness of, contemporary questions of how feminist trends and social identities are looking into themselves; while are constantly being reinvented.
Dayneris Brito
(Havana, 1996)
Art historian, art writer settled between Havana and Venice
AVAILABLE WORKS
DYE SUBLIMATION PRINTS ON ALUMINUM PANELS
MY HOUSE IS MY BODY
(8) Images
Edition of 1
$1,200.00 ea.
AVAILABLE WORKS
PIGMENT PRINTS ON ARCHIVAL PAPER
MY HOUSE IS MY BODY
14 Images
Edition of 10 + 2 AP
$375.00 ea.