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Galerie Haas Zürich
Twin Souls
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
June 10 – July 22, 2022
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Niño Cielo Estrellado, 2022, watercolor, gouche, graphite on paper dripped in beeswax, 211 x 157 cm (4 parts)
© Lea Gryze, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Haas Zürich
© Lea Gryze, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Haas Zürich
Fri, June 10, 10:00 – 20:00
Sat, June 11, 10:00 – 20:00
Sun, June 12, 11:00 – 18:00
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with texts and contributions by Katya Garcia Antón. Katya Garcia-Antón is director of the Office for Contemporary Arts Norway, commissioner and co-curator of the transformation of the Nordic Pavilion into The Sámi Pavilion La Biennale di Venezia 2022. As from August 2022 she becomes director of the Northern Norway Art Museum.
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra is one of the 213 artists invited to the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani. Now, Vasquez de la Horra takes centre stage in the exhibition at Galerie Haas Zürich. Drawing from history, folklore, mythology, sexuality and her experience of Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship, the artist explores themes of sexuality, social hierarchy, repression, politics and religion. Using drawing – either on blank sheets or reused paper – the artist invents an extraordinary universe populated by a variety of creatures and symbols suggesting the influence of Surrealism, Dada and Francisco de Goya´s phantasmagoria. Mysterious, erotic and intimate, her drawings are then immersed in molten beeswax to achieve a timeless patina and a unique materiality. The unframed drawings are often simply nailed to the wall, juxtaposed edge-to-edge in a cloud-like shape. Such presentations mark the starting point of endless stories, each work building a conversation with the surrounding works and offering limitless scenarios. Vásquez de la Horra’s venture into three dimensions translates into leporellos and paper sculptures in shapes that can evoke scale-model houses or theatre sets.
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, born in Viña del Mar, Chile, in 1967, grew up under Augusto Pinochet’s authoritarian regime. After studying at the University for Design in Viña del Mar from 1989 to 1994, Vásquez de la Horra moved to Germany, where she enrolled at Düsseldorf Art Academy under Jannis Kounellis and Rosemarie Trockel before attending the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She currently lives and works in Berlin.
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Events
Join us for the the opening of TWIN SOULS by Sandra Vásquez de la Horra.
Fri, June 10, 18:00 – 20:00 | EN
Join us for a drink with the artist.
Sat, June 11, 18:00 – 19:00 | EN
Join us for breakfast in the gallery
Sun, June 12, 10:00 – 12:00 | EN