The group exhibition Seguimos: Contemporary Art in Costa Rica is co-curated by Hannah Sloan and Craig Krull Gallery is on view through Saturday, May 18, 2024, when there will be a closing reception from 4-7PM.
Seguimos features installation, video, photography, painting, works on paper and sculpture by a highly diverse and intergenerational group of thirteen Costa Rican artists, the majority of whom are highly regarded in Central America, but have never exhibited in the United States. The artists in this exhibition reflect a spectrum of interests and concerns facing Costa Ricans today and position themselves within the broadest developments in contemporary art, with particular focus on the topics of body, identity, and place. Five of the artists identify with the queer community.
The exhibition includes work by: Adrián Arguedas Ruano, Alina González, Allegra Pacheco, Christian Wedel, Isaac Loría, Javier Calvo, La Cholla Jackson, Lucía Howell, Luciano Goizueta, Matias Sauter Morera, Mimian Hsu Chen, Priscilla Romero-Cubero and Valiente Pastel.
The title Seguimos comes from an installation of 120 works on paper by conceptual artist Priscilla Romero-Cubero, who registered the liquid latex imprints of the fingers of dozens of people, then printed them in groups of four with diagonal tally marks slashed across them. The tallies suggest the continual counting of deaths, victims, injustices, the disappeared and the silenced. Seguimos, translated as “we continue” or “we keep going,” implies lives and memory that refuse to be forgotten.
