Gloria Sebastián Fierro

Gloria Sebastián Fierro chiefly works with oil on canvas, yet they also experiment with textiles, collage and drawing. Fierro investigates painting as a method to obtain knowledge. Their early work mainly focuses on understandings of landscape, thinking how environments have shifted through time and pondering potential extra-terrestrial habitats. The paintings slip and slide between figuration and abstraction, with serene, bucolic scenes morphing into aqueous pools of colour. Initially the works appear soothing, delivered in subtle, calming tones, yet the scenes depicted have unsettling undertones running throughout. Hooded figures lurk in corners, forests dissolve in the peripheries of the canvas, or neon structures divide these vistas. A sense of unease pervades Fierro’s works. They embody a similar tonality to the surrealist work of Max Ernst, Remedios Varo or Leonora Carrington, yet the distinct alien lexicon developed by Fierro generates a novel arena for the artist to work within. Within their practice, Fierro continually investigates contemporary understandings of space and time, using painting as their primary methodology to better understand our place in the universe. ...

Instituto de Vision is a Bogotá and New York based gallery for conceptual practices. Their mission is to investigate conceptual discourses that have been neglected by the official Latin American art canon. They have recovered important estates from the Latin American art of the mid century and continue to research the most enigmatic oeuvres of the region. Through a parallel program, they represent some of the most relevant contemporary practices from Colombia, Chile, North America, Venezuela, and others. Directed by three women, Instituto de Vision gives special attention to female voices, queer theories, environmental activism, the conflicts of migration, and other critical positions that challenge the established order. Using the international art scene as a platform, they are committed to give visibility and expand the work of artists that reveal critical realities and raise important questions for these contemporary subjects. ...