Perspectives: Miami Art Week
Marcela Cantuaria, Nereida Patricia, and Studio Lenca
Joining us in November 2022 and staying through Miami Art Week, Marcela, Nereida, and Studio Lenca are part of Fountainhead's Perspectives: Miami Art Week residency, dedicated to welcoming artists whose work will be exhibited during Miami Art Week. The residency is in partnership with Untitled art fair and Y.ES Contemporary.
Marcela Cantuaria
Marcela develops paintings that intertwine historical images from the universe of politics to representations of contemporary visual culture. Part of her pictorial inventions comes from research on the struggles waged by women around the world, such as the work Sônia, which pays homage to a riverside communist guerrilla woman killed by military agents in the Araguaia region, during Brazil's first military coup in 1964.
Marcela’s work will be on view at Art Basel Miami Beach during Miami Art Week. She currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Nereida Patricia
Nereida Patricia’s practice spans sculpture, painting, and performance, and explores themes of mythology, trans poetics, and identity. Her work draws from postcolonial and Black feminist theory, Peruvian and Caribbean symbolism, as well as autobiographical fragments, to explore trans femininity, violence, gender, race and sexual politics. She has studied at The New School and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute Chicago.
Her work has been exhibited at venues at DUPLEX, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Eric Firestone Gallery (New York); Monique Meloche Gallery (Chicago); Prairie Gallery (Chicago); Annka Kultys Gallery (London); the Museum of the Moving Image (New York); and The Knockdown Center (New York), among others. Nereida’s work will be featured in the exhibition, Boil Toil & Trouble curated by Zoe Lukov during Miami Art Week and will open a solo exhibition, Agony in the Tropics, at DUPLEX (New York) in October.
Studio Lenca
Jose Campos is Studio Lenca - a name that both refers to a space for experimentation and his ancestors from El Salvador. Born in La Paz, El Salvador, he traveled to the United States illegally by land with his mother and grew up in the gaze of a strictly conservative administration as an ‘illegal alien’. Studio Lenca’s practice is focused on ideas surrounding difference, knowledge and visibility. He works with performance, video, painting and sculpture.
His process begins with personal memories and is underpinned by social activism and different forms of praxis. His paintings tell an autobiographical story which navigates borders and identities destroyed, redrawn and erased through colonization and war. The portraits depict the artist and his community proudly wearing hats and vibrant colours in noble defiance of the ‘Western’ discourse around migration. Studio Lenca is currently based in the United Kingdom.
