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.