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Installation view of Depresión Tropical, VIGIL GONZALES (2021).
VIGIL GONZALES is pleased to present Depresión Tropical, a group exhibition that brings together the work of Stephanie Williams (Costa Rica, 1987), Karlo Andrei Ibarra (Puerto Rico, 1982) Yiyo Tirado (Puerto Rico, 1990) and Iván Sikic (Lima, 1983).
Depresión tropical, the name given to this group exhibition, refers to the polysemy of the concept. We understand depression as a deep sadness, an economic downturn and finally, a drop in atmospheric pressure prior to a hurricane. These three definitions of the concept are closely linked to the meanings and feelings of the works of the selected artists.
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The works of Karlo Andrei Ibarra and Roberto Yiyo Tirado, question the neocolonialism ways exercised by the United States over the "free" and associated state of Puerto Rico. Both works take as a conceptual trigger the disaster caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017. They talk about the serious crisis left on the island, which has turned it into a tax haven benefiting foreign investors.
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Desplazamiento I (Puerta de Tierra), 2020
Yiyo TiradoInkjet print on cotton paper
152 x 100 cm | 60 x 40 in
Ed. 3
USD 4000
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Circo, 2018
Yiyo TiradoCIRCO, 2018
Inkjet print on cotton paper
71 x 50 cm | 28 x 20 in
Ed. 3
USD 2500
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Karlo Andrei Ibarra in the works of Palimpsesto alludes to different layers of information, but in this case paintings, making a mosaic with the memory of architectural spaces affected by this abrupt process of change. Roberto Yiyo, on the other hand, makes aesthetic counterpositions that refer to the double standards and the exoticization of the landscape within the Caribbean tourist market within the framework of the disasters caused by the hurricane.
An example of this is the work Hostil (Hostile) which is arranged in a luminous panel like those that usually say hostel. It is a nod to the wave of hospitality in the Caribbean, produced by the aforementioned phenomena, and its relationship or not with the communities that surround them.
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Karlo Andrei Ibarra
Untitled, 2021
Wall fragment on canvas
20 x 25 cm | 8 x 10 in
USD 600
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Karlo Andrei Ibarra
Untitled, 2021
Wall fragment on canvas
40 x 50 cm | 16 x 20 in
USD 1200
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Roberto Yiyo Tirado
Hostil, 2018
Neon, aluminum and steel
42 x 15 x 8 inches
USD 5000
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Iván Sikic
From the series Meditations on How High? , 2021
Acrylic and liquid chalk on canvas
31 x 31 cm (c/u) | 12 x 12 in (each)
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Ivan Sikic, through a performance, simulates a working day in which he inflates balloons with the colors of the American flag to fill a room. This is about labor understood as work and the labor it takes to adapt to American culture and society. This performance was accompanied by the paintings included in Depresión Tropical, which depict the process and labor of blowing up the balloons.
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Stephanie Williams (Costa Rica, 1987) through the work of the series Portadas invites the viewer to question the ways of writing history through popular statements and graphics taken from advertising of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Through these works she invites us to reflect on written history, historical sources and discourses or ideologies to which society is accustomed to take them as truths due to the historicist character of the sources.
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Stephanie Williams
Santa e Inviolable,
Inkjet print on cotton paper
56.5 x 35 cm
Ed. 3
USD 500
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Stephanie Williams
Inmensa la honra, 2018
Inkjet print on cotton paper
56.5 x 35 cm
Ed. 3
USD 500
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Stephanie Williams
Trabajar por la moralidad, 2018
Inkjet print on cotton paper
56.5 x 35 cm
Ed. 3
USD 500
Depresión Tropical
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