L-Gallery
January 25 - April 20, 2024

Including work by 11 artists from Latin America, Presentiments takes the weather as a starting point to ask questions about how we inhabit the world and how we make sense of our landscapes: national, geographic, and emotional.

This exhibition is co-curated by artist Adán Vallecillo and curator Laura Augusta, and it began as a conversation about influence. How do artists influence one another and how do they develop extended conversations over years? Every artist included here bears an influence on the pensamiento and working life of the two curators. In contrast to legacies of “importance” and heroism, Presentiments approaches the weather as a way of gauging relationship. Colloquially, the phrase “how’s the weather” is a common way of opening conversation; it also can be a way of asking about affective relationships between people. Stormy weather, for example, might signal an interpersonal conflict; conversely, someone might be described as having a sunny personality. Even the act of co-curating an exhibition signals the political stakes of relationships: this exhibition is made in collaboration and in conversation, in resistance to models of artistic and curatorial individualism.