Craig Krull Gallery presents “Seguimos: Contemporary Art in Costa Rica,” a group exhibition co-curated by Hannah Sloan, on view March 30 through May 18, 2024. An Artists Talk will be held Saturday, March 30th at 3:00pm, directly followed by an Artists Reception from 4:30 – 6:30pm. Five of the participating artists will travel from Costa Rica to Los Angeles for the panel discussion on March 30, which will be moderated by Craig Krull and Hannah Sloan: Adrián Arguedas Ruano, Allegra Pacheco, Priscilla Romero-Cubero, Luciano Goizueta, and Matias Sauter Morera.
Museum-level in scope and scale, Seguimos features installation, video, photography, painting, works on paper and sculpture by an 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, five of the artists identify with the queer community, and all position themselves within the broadest developments in contemporary art, with particular focus on the topics of body, identity and place.
Full list of artists:
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 one hundred twenty works on paper by Priscilla Romero-Cubero, a conceptual artist and researcher in the fields of graphic art and contemporary body practices. Translated as “we continue” or “we keep going,” “Seguimos” is a striking example of the artist’s signature printmaking technique, developed during the course of her PhD studies. Latexgraphy, employs liquid latex to register the imprint of human fingers and other body parts onto a reusable matrix. These fragments of rubber, resembling torn balloons, are inked and transferred onto delicate Japanese paper. The matrices and corresponding “prints,” represent an archive of people the artist has encountered, and while highly personal imprints of skin, they offer a record of human life without reference to sex, gender, nationality, age, religion or economic status. “Seguimos” is a large sequence of imprints, where groups of four fingers are slashed through by a diagonal tally mark. According to the artist, this reference to counting “appeals to memory, to sequence and also to resistance. We continue counting the days and nights, the deaths, the victims, the injustices, the disappeared and the silenced; we continue counting and discounting those present and absent…Thus, life and memory add up events that refuse to be forgotten, to be part of a past hidden and veiled by history.”
For more information on the show and participating artists: https://www.craigkrullgallery.com/next
About the Curator
Hannah Sloan is a former gallery owner (Sloan Projects) who has been curating independently throughout Los Angeles since 2005. For the past three years she has divided her time between Los Angeles and Costa Rica, where her father lived for several decades.
Pictured: Priscilla Romero-Cubero, “Seguimos” (detail), 2023, Installation of 120 prints on silk gampi paper, 6 x 9 inches each (unique)
