Sol Calero

Sol Calero’s multidisciplinary practice is distinctly colourful and reflects on identity, displacement, cultural misconception and community. Her works are contextualised by the artist’s transnational experience of being born and raised in Venezuela, having worked and exhibited internationally, and now being based in Berlin. Calero’s practice draws on the exoticized stereotypes associated with Latin America, while depicting the exchange of visual symbols and meanings between Western European and Latino cultures. Alongside painting and drawing, she works with found objects and site-specific installations. Incorporating staged but functional Latin American hair salons, interiors and salsa classes into her installations and exhibitions, Calero investigates the ambiguity of cultural codes within a cross-cultural experience. In the pursuit of decoding them, Calero activates a space of peculiar, shared belonging. ...

Crèvecœur, founded in 2009 by Axel Dibie (born 1981) and Alix Dionot-Morani (born 1979), located in the Belleville area (eastern Paris) has, since its creation, presented artists from France and the rest of the world whose different practices question current conditions for producing images and objects. The gallery sees itself as a body that supports its artists in the various stages of production, demonstration and dissemination of their practice. Through its work inside 3 gallery spaces — a 160 sq.m. space in Eastern Paris (20e) with natural light that can host ambitious exhibitions; and two spaces in the historic centre of Paris (7e) through the co-creation, since 2015, of a new alternative fair called Paris Internationale; through a publishing house called oe publishing books by represented and invited artists; and through support for production of the institutional shows of the represented artists, Crèvecœur is an entity which aims to adapt, in an organic way, to the challenging systems that contemporary artists experience today. ...