This contemporary artwork features a vibrant, abstract composition. The dominant colors are bold shades of pink and purple, creating a striking visual impact. The work appears to be made of a reflective, crumpled material that captures and distorts the surrounding light, giving it a dynamic, sculptural quality. The overall shape is reminiscent of a shield or emblem, suggesting a symbolic or heraldic reference. The artist's intentional use of vivid hues and innovative materials imbues the piece with a playful, yet mysterious, aura that invites the viewer to engage with its visual complexities. ...
Mina Squalli-Houssaïni examines strategies of resistance and vulnerability in relation to structures of domination, including colonial histories and patriarchy. She subverts emblems and symbols associated with femininity and domesticity to evoke both her personal background and collective memory. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, she plays on the tension between industrial and commercial manufacturing processes and the tradition of craft. Her work functions as a way of thinking with, thinking between, and thinking otherwise. Narratives often entangle, creating webs that symbolize absence, forgotten spaces, and objects or bodies left behind. Through representations such as humanoid insects or symbolic motifs like flowers, she explores vulnerability and power, examining whether these dynamics reveal relationships of dominance or the agency of the represented subject. Squalli-Houssaïni’s practice frequently engages with mental projections of interior environments. These spaces, sometimes domestic or heterotopic, convey absence, cynicism, threat, intimacy, and vulnerability. Through her multidisciplinary approach, the artist proposes alternative narratives, offering other ways of perceiving history and telling stories. ...
LODO Gallery is a contemporary art space dedicated to exploring the dynamic relationship between emptiness and materiality. Founded on the belief that the void is not a lack, but a fertile ground for meaning and creation, the gallery showcases works across a range of media—including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video.
Its curatorial approach emphasizes conceptual depth and visual resonance, offering exhibitions that invite reflection on contrast, presence, and transformation. The name LODO, meaning “mud” in Spanish, symbolizes the gallery’s core philosophy: like mud—a blend of earth and water—the void is a generative matrix where form and thought take shape.
Located at the intersection of absence and expression, LODO Gallery fosters a space where artistic practices can unfold with freedom, nuance, and integrity. ...
